Accident and Emergency Departments
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of accident and emergency performance at (a) Basildon Hospital, (b) other hospitals within Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust and (c) other national trusts.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Government acknowledges that urgent and emergency care performance has not consistently met expectations in recent years. The Government is committed to restoring urgent and emergency care waiting times to the standards set out in the NHS Constitution by the end of this Parliament, as laid out in our 10-Year Health Plan.
NHS England publishes monthly data on the proportion of patients seen, admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours in accident and emergency departments. The following table shows the latest figures as of November 2025 for the four-hour performance rates for Basildon Hospital, other hospitals within the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, and the national rate:
Month | Area | Percentage of total accident and emergency type 1 and 2 attendances admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours |
Latest provisional performance data for November 2025 | England | 61.2% |
Basildon | 54.2% | |
Mid Essex Hospital | 52.9% | |
Southend Hospital | 53.4% | |
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | 53.6% |
Note: site level performance data is only published as type 1 and 2 performance.
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