Speeches

Barry Sheerman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2016-09-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many calls NHS 111 has received in each of the last 12 months.

Mr Philip Dunne

NHS England publishes national data on the numbers of calls received (which are referred to as “offered”) through the NHS 111 number each month. This information provided in the table below.

Number of calls offered through the NHS 111 number, August 2015 to July 2016

August 2015

1,033,643

September 2015

933,786

October 2015

1,062,248

November 2015

1,140,196

December 2015

1,329,398

January 2016

1,343,248

February 2016

1,194,928

March 2016

1,488,928

April 2016

1,169,311

May 2016

1,282,993

June 2016

1,105,485

July 2016

1,222,866

Source: NHS England, NHS 111 Minimum Data Set 2016-17