PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Royal Bolton Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments (22 July 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for patients at the Royal Bolton Hospital Emergency Department in the latest period for which data is available.

Asked by:
Phil Brickell (Labour)

This information is not available in the format requested. The latest published National Health Service data, from June 2024, shows that 61.8% of patients were admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.

The Government is committed to supporting the NHS in reducing accident and emergency waiting times, and returning to the standards patients should expect as set out in the NHS Constitution.

Answered by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
26 July 2024