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Hospitals: Admissions

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were treated at Class 1 accident and emergency units in each of the last 10 years. (278678)

Information is not collected on the number of patients treated at accident and emergency (A&E) departments. However, data on the number of attendances at A&E type 1 departments are available and published quarterly via the Department of Health’s Quarterly Monitoring Accident and Emergency Services dataset. This includes patients who attended A&E but who were not subsequently treated and counts each attendance by the same patient separately.