Question follow-through · 82313

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have waited longer than 24 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 15 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 20 Oct 2025
Answer: 28 Nov 2025 · 44 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have waited longer than 24 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2025
Answer published
NHS England publishes monthly data on accident and emergency (A&E) performance. This includes information on those A&E attendances that are 12 hours or longer for type 1 and 2 A&E providers. The data is available at the following link:https://...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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