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<p>This information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>The following table provides a count of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances
(excluding planned attendances) with a first diagnosis of a psychiatric condition<sup>1</sup>
and a duration to departure<sup>2</sup> of more than four hours, by (a) ages 0-17,
and (b) over 18, with annual data for 2010-11 to 2013-14, monthly provisional data
for 2014-15<sup>3,4</sup>. Data for the period April 2014 to November 2014 is provisional
and subject to change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Ages
0-17</p></td><td><p>Ages 18 and over</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Duration
to Departure of more than 4 hours</p></td><td><p>Duration to Departure of more than
4 hours</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>769</p></td><td><p>11,824</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>803</p></td><td><p>13,169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>1,040</p></td><td><p>14,767</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>1,601</p></td><td><p>18,272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15
(April)</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td><p>1,630</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15 (May)</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>1,813</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15
(June)</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>1,794</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15 (July)</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>1,760</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15
(August)</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>1,877</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15 (September)</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td><p>1,887</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15
(October)</p></td><td><p>202</p></td><td><p>1,892</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15
(November)</p></td><td><p>469</p></td><td><p>1,905</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in
the independent sector</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><ol
start="1" type="1"><li>A&E Diagnosis</li></ol><p> </p><p>The following code was
used to identify psychiatric conditions within the A&E dataset:</p><p> </p><p>35
= Psychiatric conditions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Please note that the recording
of the diagnosis field within the A&E data set is not mandatory. It is not known
to what extent changes over time are as a result of improvements in recording practice.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><ol start="2" type="1"><li>Duration to departure</li></ol><p>
</p><p>The total amount of time spent in minutes in the A&E department. This is
calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the
patient is discharged from A&E care. This includes being admitted to hospital,
died in the department, discharged with no follow up or discharged - referred to another
specialist department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ol start="3" type="1"><li>Assessing
growth through time (A&E)</li></ol><p> </p><p>Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need
to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and
changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in
the provision of care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note that HES include activity
ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes
activity occurring between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.</p><p> </p><p><strong>
</strong></p><p> </p><ol start="4" type="1"><li>Provisional data: 2014-15</li></ol><p>
</p><p>The data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no
adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to
be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall
will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, i.e. November from
the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are
not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period.
There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated
and corrected.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><ol start="5" type="1"><li>Official
source of A&E activity data</li></ol><p> </p><p>HES is not the official source
of total A&E activity, this is the NHS England situation reports collection which
is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/"
target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/</a></p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, HES permits further analysis of A&E activity as
there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><ol start="6" type="1"><li>Data quality</li></ol><p> </p><p>The recording of duration
in HES A&E is not mandatory and this may particularly have affected the quality
of recorded durations to assessment and treatment.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>
</p><p><em>Source:</em> HES, the Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p>
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