The Department does not collect information in the format requested.
However, the Department does collect data on the number of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances and the number of admissions to hospital wards via an A&E unit. Data on both of these are presented in the following table, for years in which figures are available.1
1 The criteria for calculating attendance and admissions numbers have varied slightly over the period covered by the table.
First attendances Admissions via A&E Those attending A&E not subsequently admitted 1997-98 12,793,720 1,847,521 10,946,199 1998-99 12,811,064 1,955,969 10,855,095 1999-2000 13,167,495 2,035,119 11,132,376 2000-01 12,953,432 2,105,021 10,848,411 2001-02 12,900,727 2,224,833 10,675,894 2002-03 13,253,405 2,288,053 10,965,352 2003-04 15,312,738 2,467,748 12,844,990 2004-05 16,711,750 2,813,368 13,898,382 2005-06 17,775,225 2,951,076 14,824,149 2006-07 18,010,506 3,037,131 14,973,375 2007-08 18,302,138 3,087,020 15,215,118 2008-09 18,820,828 3,266,603 15,554,225 Note: To note also that 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 A&E Services dataset. This includes patients who attended A&E but who were not subsequently treated and counts each attendance by the same patient separately.