Accident and Emergency Departments: Berkshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate has been made of the average waiting times in Accident and Emergency in (a) Slough and (b) Berkshire.
Answered by Karin Smyth
NHS England publishes Accident and Emergency (A&E) waiting time data by National Health Service trust rather than by constituency or local authority area. Therefore, information is not available specifically for Slough or Berkshire.
The following table shows the most recent published data for A&E waiting times in May 2026 for NHS trusts serving Slough and Berkshire:
NHS trust | Percentage of patients admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours | Percentage of patients spending more than 12 hours in A&E from arrival |
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | 75.4% | 3.7% |
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | 75.1% | 8.2% |
The Government is committed to restoring urgent and emergency care waiting times to the standards set out in the NHS Constitution.
To improve patient flow, reduce overcrowding, and tackle long waits, the Government and NHS England have, through delivering the Urgent and Emergency Care Plan for 2025/26, provided over £450 million of investment in urgent and emergency care capacity. NHS England has also published the Model Emergency Department and the Model Acute Pathway standards for the first 72 hours of care, which support earlier assessment, timely senior clinical review, faster clinical decision-making, and improved patient flow.
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