Iain Wright – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Iain Wright on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) Hartlepool and (b) the North East had to wait on trolleys for more than 12 hours to be admitted to a hospital ward in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

Data from November 2010 onwards is available in the NHS England weekly accident and emergency (A&E) performance reports, which are published online at:

http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

Prior to this period A&E data was collected quarterly from 2001-02 and this can be found at:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107105354/http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/AccidentandEmergency/index.htm

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