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Hospitals: Admissions

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 36858, tabled on 14 July 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were required to wait for 12 hours or more from the point of decision to admit to admission in hospital in June 2022.

Answered on

19 July 2022

In June 2022, 130,109 patients spent over four hours in an emergency department from the decision to admit to admission to hospital, with 22,034 patients waiting more than 12 hours from decision to admit to admission.

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