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: enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk Press enquiries should be made to: Media Relations Manager: telephone 0300 303 3888

This publication looks at Accident and Emergency activity in England for the financial year 2023-24. 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. Note: the MSitAE figures presented in the 'MSitAE Report Tables' file account for revisions to historic data and may therefore differ slightly from those shown in the 'Quality Indicators (CQI) Open Data' file, which is based on data published at fixed points in the year. The MSitAE data referenced throughout this report are published monthly by NHS England on the separate 'NHS England MSitAE Home Page', as linked to in the Related Links section below. This publication includes the total number of attendances for all A&E types, including Urgent Treatment Centres, Minor Injury Units and Walk-in Centres, and of these, the number discharged, admitted or transferred within four hours of arrival. Also included are the number of Emergency Admissions, and any waits of over four hours for admission following decision to admit. Contact details Author: Secondary Care Open Data and Publications; Activity Capacity & Planning, NHS England Responsible Statistician: Karl Eichler Email: enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk Press enquiries should be made to: Media Relations Manager: telephone 0300 303 3888