HC Deb 19 November 2001 vol 375 cc123-4W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Leicester, East, 24 October 2001,Official Report, columns 306–07W, what statistics are kept on the average waiting time on a trolley before admission to a Leicestershire hospital in the last 12 months. [13546]

Mr. Hutton

Latest published figures show that of the 15,690 patients admitted through the accident and emergency department at University Hospitals of Leicester National Health Service Trust between July 2000 and June 2001, an average of 83 per cent. were admitted within two hours and 92 per cent. were admitted within four hours. Overall average waiting time figures are not calculated.