HC Deb 27 April 2004 vol 420 cc915-6W
Mr. Beggs

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average monthly waiting times in accident and emergency departments in each Northern Ireland hospital were in each of the last three years. [168270]

Angela Smith

This information is not collected centrally. Provisional data for the quarter ending 31 December 2003 indicates that 71 per cent. of patients admitted to wards from accident and emergency departments were admitted within two hours of the clinician's decision to admit.