Accident and Emergency

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many accident and emergency attendances there were in each quarter since the quarter ended December 2005, broken down by attendances to (a) type one accident and emergency departments, (b) walk-in centres and (c) minor injuries units. (92037)

The information is not available in the format requested. Information available is set out in the table.

*Attendances at type one accident and emergency departments (A and E), walk in centres (WiCs) and type three A and E departments, England, quarter three 2005-06 to quarter one 2006-07*
	Quarter	Type one	WiCs	Type 3 (excluding WiCs)¹
2005-06	3	3,346,995	616,165	484,321
2005-06	4	3,282,671	612,305	489,873
2006-07	1	3,509,769	629,417	583,148
¹ A type three A and E department is defined as—other type of A and E, including minor injury units (MIUs) and WiCs with designated accommodation for the reception of A and E patients that provide treatment for at least minor illness and injury and can be routinely accessed without appointment. A type three department may be doctor-led or nurse-led. A service mainly or entirely appointment based (for example a general practitioner practice or out-patient clinic) is not a type three A and E service even though it may treat a number of patients with minor illness or injury. Note: MIUs are one type of type three A and E and will be included in these figures, but data are not collected separately for MIU attendance. Source: Department of Health dataset QMAE

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the pattern of admission to University hospital of Hartlepool accident and emergency department in each of the last five years, with particular reference to (a) day of the week of admission and (b) time of day of admission. (96175)

The information is not available in the format requested.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people waited for more than four hours to be seen in the accident and emergency (A&E) department at (a) St. Richard's hospital, Chichester, (b) Princess Royal hospital, Haywards Heath, (c) Worthing hospital, (d) Queen Alexandra hospital, Portsmouth and (e) Royal Sussex county hospital, Brighton in each of the last three years; and whether each of those hospitals met the Government target for A&E waiting times in each of those years. (94789)

The information requested is only collected at trust level. The table shows the number of people spending over four hours between arrival in accident and emergency and admission, transfer or discharge for Brighton and Sussex university hospitals national health service trust, Portsmouth hospitals NHS trust, Royal West Sussex NHS trust and Worthing and Southlands hospitals NHS trust for each of the last three years for which data is available.

Organisation	Total attendances (all A&E types)	Percentage of patients spending under four hours between arrival in A&E and admission, transfer or discharge (all A&E types)	Number of patients spending over four hours between arrival in A&E and admission, transfer or discharge(all A&E types)
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS
2003-04	112,695	82.6	19,556
2004-05	120,463	94.8	6,279
2005-06	124,386	93.8	7,651

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
2003-04	125,227	87.1	16,165
2004-05	129,790	95.0	6,454
2005-06	133,503	98.6	1,851

Royal West Sussex NHS Trust
2003-04	47,948	93.0	3,361
2004-05	48,344	97.0	1,449
2005-06	48,868	98.7	633

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust
2003-04	56,842	91.0	5,128
2004-05	61,333	97.0	1,827
2005-06	62,026	98.1	1,196
Note: The first full financial year during which trusts were required to meet 98 per cent. was 2005-06. Source: Department of Health dataset QMAE.

Volume 451: debated on Monday 6 November 2006