Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports 2024-25

2024-25 reporting

Weekly updates will commence on Thursday 5 December 2024, covering the week ending 1 December 2024, and will continue every Thursday at 09:30 throughout winter. The final publication will be made on Thursday 3 April 2025 covering the week ending Sunday 30 March 2025.

During the Christmas period, due to bank holidays, no publications will be made on Thursday 26 December 2024. Instead, publications for the weeks ending 22 and 29 December will be made the following Friday 3 January 2025.

This page contains management data which has been collected on a rapid turn-round basis from the NHS. The speed of the collection only permits minimal validation to be undertaken but the data is considered ‘fit-for-purpose’.

NHS 111 IUC ADC time series

Web File Timeseries – NHS111

Further information on the 111 data collections can be found here: Integrated urgent care aggregate data collection (IUCADC including NHS111).

Please note, that as explained on that page, changes to the way that the Weekly 111/IUCADC data are collected mean that a number of data items have amended definitions and hence cannot be compared to the data collected in previous years in the 111MDS dataset.

Ambulance handovers time series

Web File Timeseries – Ambulance Collection

Specification for the data in the ambulance spreadsheet: Daily Ambulance Collection Guidance

Other ambulance indicators are available monthly from Ambulance Quality Indicators.

UEC daily sitrep time series

Web File Timeseries – UEC Daily SitRep

In the publication we have split general and acute open and occupied beds, as well as beds closed due to diarrhoea and vomiting (D&V)/norovirus-like symptoms (unoccupied) into adults and paediatrics. Therefore, if comparing to previous years users would need to compare the total (adult plus paediatrics). From November 2021 we have collected metrics relating to infection prevention including the number of beds occupied by patients with laboratory confirmed influenza in general and acute, as well as critical care. In addition, we have collected the number of beds closed to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for paediatric patients, as well as those unoccupied.

A guidance document is available here: Submit your daily situation report (sitrep).

A&E Attendance and Emergency Admissions are published monthly and available here: Statistics » A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions

Comparing data to December 2020

Note that prior to week ending 20 December 2020 the UEC Daily SitRep collection did not include 13 acute trusts (trusts without A&E departments).  For ease of comparison to earlier periods, we have included two totals on the files, both with and without these 13 trusts.  These trusts can be found listed at the bottom of each spreadsheet table.

Note on beds data

Please note that the beds figures included in this publication are collected on a different basis (both in terms of organisations covered and definitions) to those previously published in the COVID-19 data section, so are not comparable.

COVID daily sitrep time series

Web File Timeseries – Covid Acute

This section contains daily data on

  • The number of confirmed COVID-19 patients occupying a hospital bed
  • Staffing absences (split by all absences and COVID-19 related absences)

Note:  Not all trusts have submitted absence data for every day.  The impact of the missing data submissions should be borne in mind when interpreting both the level of national and regional figures and the recent trend.

A more detailed monthly release on COVID-19 admissions, diagnoses and bed occupancy, along with definitions can be found here: COVID-19 hospital activity.

Acute discharge weekly sitrep data

Web File Timeseries – Acute Discharge SitRep

The Acute Discharge Weekly Situation Report (SitRep) highlights daily discharge figures across England. This includes all inpatients 18 and over including critical care patients but excluding paediatrics, maternity, and deceased patients.

This includes data for acute trusts with a type 1 A&E department.

Mental Health Trusts, specialised Trusts (including Children’s and Women’s Trusts) are not in scope of this collection.

Daily data is published on a weekly basis.

Data is unvalidated management information.

Guidance on criteria to reside is available in Annex D of the Hospital Discharge and Community Support: Policy and Operating Model.