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Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of patients waited longer than four hours in A&E in (a) September, (b) October and (c) November 2024.

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 11 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 23 Dec 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of patients waited longer than four hours in A&E in (a) September, (b) October and (c) November 2024.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
The following table shows the percentage of patients in England who waited longer than four hours in accident and emergency, in September, October, and November of 2023 and 2024:Month and yearPercentage of patients who waited longer than four hoursSeptemb...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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