Publication, Part of Hospital Accident & Emergency Activity

Hospital Accident & Emergency Activity, 2022-23

Official statistics

Publication Date:: 21 Sep 2023
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Country, Strategic Health Authorities, NHS Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers
Date Range:: 01 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2023

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About this publication

Update to Home Nations Comparison File

We have made an update to one of the 12 hour wait percentage figures in the Home Nations file. If you have downloaded this file prior to 11:45 on 21st September 2023, please re-download the file and ensure you are using the one which has 'v2' at the end of the file name.

21 September 2023 11:45 AM

Update to clinical figures

We have made an update to some of the figures for the 'NOT SUBMITTED' and total values for the first diagnosis codes. If you are using the National Data Tables, Open Data CSV or Provider Level Analysis CSV and have downloaded of these prior to 12pm on 23rd October 2023, please re-download this and ensure that the file you are using has 'v2' at the end of the file name.

23 October 2023 12:00 PM

Update to provider level analysis

We have updates some of the figures in the provider level analysis file. If you have downloaded this file before 13:30 on 25th October 2023, please re-download it and ensure you are using the file that has v3 at the end of the file name.

25 October 2023 13:30 PM

Summary

This publication looks at Accident and Emergency activity in England for the financial year 2022-23. It describes NHS accident and emergency activity and performance in hospitals in England. The data sources for this publication are the Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) and Emergency Admissions Monthly Situation Reports (MSitAE) relating to A&E attendances in NHS hospitals, minor injury units and walk-in centres. The report includes analysis by patient demographics, time spent in A&E, distributions by time of arrival and day of week, arriving by ambulance, performance times, waits for admission and reattendances to A&E within 7 days. The purpose of this publication is to inform and support strategic and policy-led processes for the benefit of patient care and may also be of interest to researchers, journalists and members of the public interested in NHS hospital activity in England

Known Data Quality Issues:

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (REF) - Due to a system configuration issue which the supplier has been unable to resolve, since January 2023, records which have an NHS Number Status Indicator of '02' are missing the data items Person Birth Date, Organisation Code of Residence and Postcode in submissions from Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (REF). This may cause a reduction in certain record counts in this publication and will impact the data quality score for RCHT.

Contact details

Author: Secondary Care Open Data and Publications, NHS England

Responsible Statistician: Emily Michelmore

Email: [email protected]

Press enquiries should be made to: Media Relations Manager: telephone 0300 303 3888

Highlights

Total A&E attendances

In 2022-23 there were 25.3 million attendances in Accident and Emergency (Source: MSitAE)

This is an increase of 4.0 per cent compared with 2021-22 and an increase of 18.0 per cent since 2011-12.

Total time spent in A&E

For 2022-23, 70.8 per cent of patient attendances spent 4 hours or less in A&E (Source: MSitAE).

This is a decrease compared to 2021-22 where 76.7 per cent of patient attendances spent 4 hours or less in A&E.

A&E attendances in deprived areas

Rates of A&E attendances per head of population for people living in the most deprived areas are nearly double that of those in the least deprived (Source: ECDS)

There were around twice as many attendances to A&E departments in England for the 10% of the population living in the most deprived areas (3.1 million), compared with the least deprived 10% (1.6 million)

Home Nations Comparison

England had the second highest reported Type 1 A&E attendance rate amongst the home nations (Source: MSitAE)

England had 28,014 attendances per 100,000 population. Northern Ireland were the highest with 34,729 attendances per 100,000 population

A&E Attendances by Age Band

In 2022-23 patients aged under 35 years of age accounted for 47.4 per cent of all attendances. (Source: ECDS)

This has increased from 47.1 per cent in 2021-22