1. Dr. Khaled Saraya Consultant in Emergency Medicine
A&E activity
Dr. Khaled Saraya
Consultant in Emergency Medicine

2. A&E activity in Financial year 2012-13
Total number of A&E attendances 41,725
Total number of admissions: 20,0043
Care UK (urgent care centre) referrals: 10,470
Care UK referral that were admitted: 5089

3. A&E activity in Financial year 2012-13
CDU admissions: 2546
Care UK CDU admissions: 980

4. What does that mean? Of the 41k patients we see:
16.5K(41.5%) were admitted to a ward
3.5K (8.5%) were admitted to CDU
10K (25%) of these patients are Care UK referrals
4K (40%) of Care UK referrals needed admission to a ward
1K (10%) of Care UK referrals needed admission to CDU

5. What does that mean?
Patients presenting to this A&E have a high disease burden that needs extra care.
25% of these patients are walk in patients.

6. What does that mean? Given these numbers, is the answer:
1- Closure of this A&E and the acute services?
2- Improve the services in this hospital to provide the needed care for this community?