{"id":561695,"date":"2026-05-02T02:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:43:27","slug":"surrey-nhs-trust-ae-waiting-times-with-those-over-12-hours-mapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561695\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey NHS Trust A&E waiting times with those over 12 hours mapped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Across Surrey, a total of 2,761 patients had to wait over 12 hours from the decision to admit to being admitted at emergency wards in March.\"Epsom<\/p>\n

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trusts saw the most patients waiting for more than 12 hours in Surrey(Image: Get Surrey)<\/p>\n

The number of patients waiting over 12 hours in A&Es in Surrey fell last month, but is at record highs for this time of year.<\/p>\n

Across Surrey, a total of 2,761 patients had to wait over 12 hours from the decision to admit to being admitted at emergency wards in March.<\/p>\n

That was down from 2,965 in February and an all-time record high of 3,666 in January.<\/p>\n

Despite this fall, however, last month\u2019s total was still the highest for the month of March in our county.<\/p>\n

In March 2025, a total of 2,470 patients faced waits of over 12 hours in Surrey A&Es. That was up from 1,892 in March 2024, 1,250 in March 2023 and 131 in March 2022.<\/p>\n

The situation in Surrey reflects that of England as a whole.<\/p>\n

A total of 46,665 patients had to wait over 12 hours from a decision to admit to being admitted in emergency wards across England in March.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s down from 54,649 in February and 71,517 in January, which was the highest number on record.<\/p>\n

Despite that though, last month\u2019s total was still the second highest for the month of March.<\/p>\n

At the same time last year, some 46,766 patients faced A&E waits of over 12 hours. A year earlier it was 42,968 and in 2023 it was 39,687.<\/p>\n

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was quite rare for patients to have to wait so long to be admitted.<\/p>\n

Back in March 2011, only one patient in the whole of England faced an A&E wait of more than 12 hours. In March 2019, the last year before the pandemic, that rose to 331 patients, less than 1% of the current total.<\/p>\n

By March 2022, however, some 22,506 patients had to wait over 12 hours in A&E.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the number of people waiting more than 12 hours in A&E at each of Surrey’s emergency departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across Surrey, a total of 2,761 patients had to wait over 12 hours from the decision to admit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[192672,147054,127797,102,2960,34234,104,182006,192673,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-east-surrey-hospital","tag-epsom-hospital","tag-frimley-park-hospital","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-iya-alert-county","tag-nhs","tag-royal-surrey-county-hospital","tag-st-peters-hospital","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}