FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03519
- Request Date
- January 17, 2020
- Subject
- A&E Admission Waiting Times
- Description
1). What is the longest period of time a patient has had to wait in A&E from decision to admit to admission in each of the past four financial years, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20.
2). Was this wait experienced by an adult or a child patient?
3). What reason is given, if any, for the length of the wait?
- Response
1). Under Section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is available from NHS England statistics (below)
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
2). The requested information relates to a single individual to provide further detail may breach their confidentiality. Therefore we are exempting this information as personal and applying Section 40(2).
3). We do not routinely record this information, to retrieve it would require a manual trawl of patient case notes which would exceed 18 hours. This information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)).