10 Sep 2020
There were almost twice as many attendances to Accident and Emergency departments in England for the 10% of the population living in the most deprived areas (3.1 million), compared with the least deprived 10% (1.6 million) in 2019-20, according to official figures released today.
NHS Digital’s Hospital Accident and Emergency Activity 2019/20 also shows that attendances for the 20% of the population living in the most deprived areas1 accounted for 27% of all A&E attendances (5.9 million attendances)2.
The report, created in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement, brings together newly published data from NHS Digital’s Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) with previously published data from NHS England and NHS Improvement’s A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions Monthly Situation Reports (MSitAE)3.
It includes attendances from all types of Accident and Emergency departments ranging from major A&E departments, single specialty, consultant-led emergency departments to Minor Injury Units and Walk-in Centres.
HES data in the report shows for 2019/20:
MSitAE data in the report shows that:
Provider level analysis of the figures is also available as part of this release.
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Hospital Accident and Emergency Activity 2019/20
NHS Digital have also published provisional monthly figures for Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England as an interactive data dashboard:
Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England, June 2020, by provider
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