Weekly A&E Activity and Waiting Times

The Department Type names have changed and Type 1 replaces ED and Type 3 replaces MIU/Other. Further information is available in the A&E Data Recording manual. Please also note that the Weekly Accident and Emergency Activity data now contains a breakdown by attendance category with New Planned and Unplanned and an All which is a combination of the New Planned and Unplanned.

When doing calculations on the data either filter out All or Unplanned/New Planned to prevent double counting. This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS), provides a weekly update of key statistics on attendances at Emergency Departments (EDs) across Scotland. The information includes trends in the number of attendances and proportion waiting over 4, 8 and 12 hours.

These statistics do not reflect all types of A&E activity and they should not be used to monitor against the 4-hour A&E access standard. Further information on A&E services across Scotland can be found here.