FOI_8361

Internal Reference Number: FOI_8361

Date Request Received: 06/01/2025 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 17/01/2025 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Assault attendances to Emergency Department 2024

Request Category: Researcher


Question Number 1: Emergency Departments for assault-related injury The data we require are as follows (for period 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2024) in an electronic format that allows us to read the data into a database. Many hospitals respond to our survey and provide data in the form we require. Preferably this format is in an excel file or comma separated text file. Data required (for period between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2024) • We require the gender of the patient (M or F), the date that they attended due to assault (dd/mm/yyyy) and their age. Age can either be numerical to the nearest year (preferred) or in age bands ("0-10", "11-17", "18-30", "31-50", "51+"), we can also accept date of birth. • To calculate the level of assault-related injury in England and Wales we also require the total number of attendances for any reason in the year of interest, i.e., 2024. • Please also include the names of hospitals (including Minor Injury Units and Walk-in Centres) providing assault data.

Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to the FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note we have provided aggregated figures by Year (2024), Sex (Male/Female) and Age Band. The name of the hospital providing this data is Salisbury District Hospital. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below: 12671 - FOI_8361 - Assault attendances to Emergency Department..xlsx
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