NHS Scotland A&E departments 15% better than NHS England yet with far more admissions

From Public Health Scotland today:

98,068 (70.8%) of A&E attendances (138 467) were seen and resulted in a subsequent admission, transfer or discharge within 4 hours.

Attendances of over 8 hours

11,201 (8.4%) patients spent more than 8 hours in A&E.Attendances of over 12 hours

3,716 (2.8%) patients spent more than 12 hours in A&E.

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/data-and-intelligence/ae-activity/#section-2-1

From Public Health England, for the same time period, 61.9% of 740 252 admissions were seen within 4 hours:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

NHS Scotland thus performs around 15% better leading to thousands more seen within 4 hours in Scotland and hundreds of thousands not seen in that time in England.

Also, NHS England, with 10 times the population might have been expected to see 1.38 million in its full, Type 1 A&E departments but saw only 740 000, just over half that, with nearly 700 000 going to Type 3 A&E Minor Injury Units.

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