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Accident and Emergency Departments

Volume 487: debated on Tuesday 10 February 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many attendances there were at (a) major accident and emergency departments, (b) single speciality accident and emergency departments, (c) other types of accident and emergency departments, including minor injury units and (d) walk-in centres in each year since 2002. (255605)

The following table shows the number of attendances at major accident and emergency departments, single speciality accident and emergency (A and E) departments, other types of accident and emergency departments including minor injury and walk-in centres in each year since 2002.

Attendances at accident and emergency departments, minor injury units and walk-in centres, England, 2002-03 to 2007-08

Type 1

Type 2

Type 3

Walk-in centres

Total

2002-03

11,994,874

515,808

1,880,840

n/a

14,391,522

2003-04

12,665,482

606,573

1,862,949

1,381,841

16,516,845

2004-05

13,265,820

619,232

1,920,698

2,031,430

17,837,180

2005-06

13,553,686

648,732

2,046,789

2,509,957

18,759,164

2006-07

13,602,589

623,587

2,323,107

2,372,992

18,922,275

2007-08

13,393,554

656,496

2,400,742

2,677,201

19,127,993

Notes:

1. In the table, type 3 excludes walk-in centres.

2. From Q1 2002-03, A and E attendances by type were first collected.

3. From Q1 2003-04, attendances at A and E walk-in centres were included.

4. From Q1 2007-08, attendances at independent sector provided type 3 (and walk-in centre) services were included.

Source:

Department of Health dataset QMAE.