Monthly 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 Monthly 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 monthly update of key statistics on attendances at Accident & Emergency Departments (A&E) across Scotland. The information includes trends in the number of attendances and proportion waiting over 4, 8 and 12 hours, and from May 2023 this release was expanded to include data on demographics, when patients attend, referral source, discharge destination and multiple attenders.

Further information on A&E services across Scotland can be found here.