Qualitywatch
A Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation programme
NHS performance dashboard
This new dashboard provides an overview of NHS performance in England. The latest data reveals the effects of a tough winter.
- In December almost 3 in 10 patients waited longer than 4 hours at A&E; and over 1 in 10 patients waited more 12 hours for an emergency hospital bed, a huge increase in recent years.
Despite a small drop in the waiting list for planned care in November, there is still a long way to go to hit the Government’s interim objective that 65% of people should be seen in 18 weeks.
A&E and ambulance
Waiting times for diagnostics and planned care
For interactive charts showing the quality of health and social care over time, please refer to our 200+ indicators.
Notes
Two month (62 day) cancer waits are from urgent suspected cancer referrals, breast symptomatic referrals, urgent screening referrals, or consultant upgrades.
Between May 2019 and May 2023, in response to proposals made in the Clinically-Led Review of NHS Access Standards Interim Report, 14 hospital trusts acted as field testing sites for alternatives to the existing four-hour A&E standard. During this period, these trusts did not report performance on the four-hour standard and are hence absent from the data for May 2019 to May 2023. Reporting on the findings of the Clinical Review of Standards for Urgent and Emergency Care is now available.
Methodology
The data used in this dashboard is extracted from NHS England’s monthly performance statistics publication. This is published on the second Thursday of each month. It provides data from the previous month for A&E and ambulance performance, and for the month before this for elective care, cancer, and diagnostics performance.