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This week's figures for England:

  • 95%

    target for patients seen in 4 hours at A&E

  • 89.0%

    patients seen in 4 hours at major A&E hospitals

  • 92.8%

    patients seen in 4 hours at all A&E units

The additional pressures of cold weather, norovirus and flu have an impact on all A&E departments across the UK. This tracker allows you to find out how the NHS is doing where you live.

England is the only place to publish weekly A&E data every week. Elsewhere it is published on a monthly or quarterly basis. To see how the health service is performing please submit your postcode below.

Rest of UK: Four-hour performance in all A&Es

  • 74.8%

    (Jan)
    Target is 95%

  • 87.1%

    (Jan)
    Target is 98%

  • 82.3%

    (Jan)
    Target is 95%

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This week at The figures relate to the trust as a whole rather than individual hospitals. Some trusts have more than one hospital with a major A&E department but NHS England does not break the figures down by hospital.

  • 97.2%

    Patients seen in 4 hours

    The government target is that 95% of patients arriving at a major Accident and Emergency should be seen within four hours.
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  • Attendance at A&E

    The number of people who visit the unit during the week

    1,889

    Down by three

  • Emergency admissions

    These are when patients need to be admitted into the hospital for further treatment. The majority come via A&E, but some also arrive after GP referrals or after outpatient appointments. The figure shown only includes those patients who have been admitted by A&E.

    384

    Down by three

  • People who have to wait more than 4 hours in A&E

    The number of people who have waited longer than the target of four-hours to be seen or admitted into hospital.
    Your hospital
    0
    Down by two
    National Average
    372
    Up by two

    People who waited more than 4 hours to be admitted, weeks compared

  • Ambulances queuing outside A&E

    Ambulances can only leave A&E when they have formally transferred a patient into the care of hospital staff. The NHS is meant to do this within 15 minutes of an ambulance arrival. A queuing ambulance is classed as one that has waited at least 30 minutes.
    0
    30

    Ambulances queuing outside A&E weeks compared

  • Planned operations cancelled

    Pressure on A&E can affect other parts of the hospital. This measures the number of non-emergency operations cancelled, which includes treatments such as hip and knee replacements.
    0
    4

    Planned operations cancelled, weeks compared

  • Beds blocked

    Some patients, particularly the frail elderly, can only be discharged when the hospital is satisfied there is the right care in the community, either from social care or the NHS, for them to be properly cared for. This is an indication of how many days have been lost due to patients being kept in hospital when they are ready for discharge because of insufficient services available out of hospital. The figures are calculated by adding together the number of beds blocked each day to create a weekly total.
    0
    100

    Beds blocked, weeks compared

  • Bed days lost to norovirus

    Figure is calculated by adding the number of beds unavailable each day due to diarrhoea and vomiting or norovirus-like symptoms over the week.
    0
    20

    Beds closed due to norovirus, weeks compared

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Analysis

By Nick Triggle, Health correspondent, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News

Today marks the end of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's NHS Winter project. The past seven days have seen a slight improvement in performance - 92.8% of patients were seen in four hours, up from 91.5% the week before.But that cannot mask just how difficult this winter has been. In England the target has not been met at all

NHS England bosses have praised the work of staff though, saying they have "pulled out all the stops". Why? Attendances have risen by nearly 200,000 this winter.

However, the end of winter doesn't automatically lead to the pressures easing. Easter 2013 was actually worse than that year's winter period and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are still a long way from hitting the four-hour mark. Expect to hear plenty more about A&E pressures in the coming months.