PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Princess Royal Hospital Telford: Accident and Emergency Departments (4 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people (a) presented at the Princess Royal Hospital A&E, Telford, and (b) were admitted to that hospital in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Shaun Davies (Labour)

Information on accident and emergency attendances and admissions is not available in the format requested, as it is only available at a National Health Service trust-level. The following table shows the accident and emergency attendances and emergency admissions for the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, from 2019/20 to 2024/25:

Year	Accident and emergency attendances	Emergency admissions	Emergency admissions via accident and emergency
2019/20	143,008	59,793	31,804
2020/21	103,203	45,701	30,240
2021/22	149,323	54,807	34,574
2022/23	149,413	54,969	33,723
2023/24	154,766	59,307	33,118
2024/25	64,904	25,971	15,813

Source: the data is from NHS England, and is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
Note: the data for 2024/25 is only up until August 2024.

NHS England publishes monthly provisional quality indicators that include the median average and the 95th percentile times that patients spent in accident and emergency by NHS trust. The following table shows the monthly range, from lowest and highest, of the median average time in minutes that patients spent in accident and emergency, each year since 2019/20 to 2024/25, for the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust:

Year	Range of median average time patients spent in accident and emergency	Range of the 95th percentile time patients spent in accident and emergency
2019/20	169 to 211	577 to 921
2020/21	138 to 199	361 to 796
2021/22	158 to 218	471 to 1,089
2022/23	201 to 268	899 to 2,086
2023/24	212 to 240	1,698 to 2,339
2024/25	208 to 250	1,663 to 2,123

Source: the data is from NHS England, and is available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/provisional-accident-and-emergency-quality-indicators-for-england
Notes:

1. the data for 2024/25 is only up until July 2024.
2. data is published at NHS provider-level not a site level, and is not disaggregated by age to provide separate information for adults and children.
3. the 95th percentile is the time that is longer than the time 95% of patients spent in accident and emergency.

Answered by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
11 October 2024