Friday 20 March 2026
Internal Reference Number: FOI_9192
Date Request Received: 29/01/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 16/02/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Conveyances to Trust emergency departments by ambulance resulting in discharge from the ED
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: In your response, please do not exclude matches from one of these from the others – i.e. if your response to (c)(i) was 100, the response to (c)(ii) should be 100 + the number of patients who had either no investigations or only the listed investigations common to (i) and (ii), and either no procedures or only the procedures from (i) plus Review of medication (SCTID 182836005) or New medication commenced (SCTID 266712008). (d) For each group from (c)(i) to (c)(iv), please provide the ten most common discharge diagnoses, their SNOMED CT code, and the number of care episodes for each. (If you are unable to provide SNOMED CT codes for any reason, please indicate this and just provide the discharge diagnosis as text. If you are unable to provide this information at all, either because you reach the FoI cost limit or because you do not store this information in a way which is retrievable for the purposes of a data request, please indicate why you were unable to provide the information.) In the time period from 1 April 2023 to 30 March 2025: (a) How many care episodes where patients were brought by emergency road ambulance into the emergency department(s) in your hospital trust were there? (If you are unable to differentiate between emergency and non-emergency ambulance, please indicate that you are not able to, and then include all ambulance attendances in the figure provided.) | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response in the Excel spreadsheet attached. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13522 - FOI_9192 - Conveyances to Trust emergency departments by ambulance resulting in discharge from the ED.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: (b) Which ambulance trusts brought patients to your emergency department(s) by emergency road ambulance, and how many care episodes were there where patients were brought in by each trust? (If you are unable to differentiate between emergency and non-emergency ambulance, please indicate that you are not able to, and then include all ambulance attendances in the figure provided. If you do not hold per-patient data on which ambulance trust brought a patient to your emergency department(s), please indicate that you are not able to, and provide only the name(s) of the ambulance trust(s) known to bring patients to your emergency department(s).) | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see our response in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
| Question Number 3: (c) Of those care episodes (corresponding to an "Arrival by emergency road ambulance (finding)" Urgent and Emergency Care Arrival Mode, with SCTID 1048031000000100), how many resulted in a discharge from the emergency department with one of the below Urgent and Emergency Care Discharge Destinations, as reportable to ECDS: Patient discharge, to legal custody (SCTID 50861005) Discharge to hospital at home service (SCTID 1066351000000102) Discharge to police custody (SCTID 306705005) Discharge to nursing home (SCTID 306694006) Discharge to residential home (SCTID 306691003) Discharge to home (SCTID 306689006) | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see our response in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
| Question Number 4: AND with, respectively, each of the following, as reportable to ECDS (each subcriterion here is separated with dashes for ease of reading): --- (i) Either no Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Investigations or ONLY one or more of the following: Glucose measurement, blood, test strip (SCTID 104686004) Dementia test (SCTID 165320004) Clinical investigation not indicated (SCTID 1088291000000101) Peak expiratory flow measurement (SCTID 29893006) Electrocardiographic procedure (SCTID 29303009) AND either no Urgent and Emergency Care Procedures or ONLY one or more of the following: Patient given written advice (SCTID 413334001) Psychosocial assessment (SCTID 371585000) Mobility/transfers education, guidance, and counseling (SCTID 410267000) Application of dressing, minor (SCTID 15631002) Application of sling (SCTID 52037006) Assessment of mobility (SCTID 430481008) Osteoporosis - falls prevention (SCTID 391027005) Activities of daily living assessment (SCTID 304492001) Social assessment (SCTID 406551008) Treatment not indicated (SCTID 183964008) | |
| Answer To Question 4: Please see our response in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
| Question Number 5: (ii) Either no Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Investigations or ONLY one or more of the following: Glucose measurement, blood, test strip (SCTID 104686004) Dementia test (SCTID 165320004) Clinical investigation not indicated (SCTID 1088291000000101) Peak expiratory flow measurement (SCTID 29893006) Electrocardiographic procedure (SCTID 29303009) AND either no Urgent and Emergency Care Procedures or ONLY one or more of the following: Patient given written advice (SCTID 413334001) Psychosocial assessment (SCTID 371585000) Mobility/transfers education, guidance, and counseling (SCTID 410267000) Application of dressing, minor (SCTID 15631002) Application of sling (SCTID 52037006) Assessment of mobility (SCTID 430481008) Osteoporosis - falls prevention (SCTID 391027005) Activities of daily living assessment (SCTID 304492001) Social assessment (SCTID 406551008) Treatment not indicated (SCTID 183964008) Review of medication (SCTID 182836005) New medication commenced (SCTID 266712008) | |
| Answer To Question 5: Please see our response in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
| Question Number 6: (iii) Either no Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Investigations or ONLY one or more of the following: Glucose measurement, blood, test strip (SCTID 104686004) Dementia test (SCTID 165320004) Clinical investigation not indicated (SCTID 1088291000000101) Peak expiratory flow measurement (SCTID 29893006) Electrocardiographic procedure (SCTID 29303009) Urinalysis (SCTID 27171005) D-dimer assay (SCTID 70648006) Serum lactate measurement (SCTID 270982000) Ultrasonography (SCTID 16310003) Echocardiography (SCTID 40701008) Blood gases, venous measurement (SCTID 61911006) Measurement of urea and electrolytes (SCTID 252167001) AND either no Urgent and Emergency Care Procedures or ONLY one or more of the following: Patient given written advice (SCTID 413334001) Psychosocial assessment (SCTID 371585000) Mobility/transfers education, guidance, and counselling (SCTID 410267000) Application of dressing, minor (SCTID 15631002) Application of sling (SCTID 52037006) Assessment of mobility (SCTID 430481008) Osteoporosis - falls prevention (SCTID 391027005) Activities of daily living assessment (SCTID 304492001) Social assessment (SCTID 406551008) Treatment not indicated (SCTID 183964008) Review of medication (SCTID 182836005) New medication commenced (SCTID 266712008) | |
| Answer To Question 6: Please see our response in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
| Question Number 7: (iv) Either no Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Investigations or ONLY one or more of the following: Glucose measurement, blood, test strip (SCTID 104686004) Dementia test (SCTID 165320004) Clinical investigation not indicated (SCTID 1088291000000101) Peak expiratory flow measurement (SCTID 29893006) Electrocardiographic procedure (SCTID 29303009) Urinalysis (SCTID 27171005) D-dimer assay (SCTID 70648006) Serum lactate measurement (SCTID 270982000) Ultrasonography (SCTID 16310003) Echocardiography (SCTID 40701008) Blood gases, venous measurement (SCTID 61911006) Measurement of urea and electrolytes (SCTID 252167001) Complete blood count (SCTID 26604007) AND either no Urgent and Emergency Care Procedures or ONLY one or more of the following: Patient given written advice (SCTID 413334001) Psychosocial assessment (SCTID 371585000) Mobility/transfers education, guidance, and counseling (SCTID 410267000) Application of dressing, minor (SCTID 15631002) Application of sling (SCTID 52037006) Assessment of mobility (SCTID 430481008) Osteoporosis - falls prevention (SCTID 391027005) Activities of daily living assessment (SCTID 304492001) Social assessment (SCTID 406551008) Treatment not indicated (SCTID 183964008) Review of medication (SCTID 182836005) New medication commenced (SCTID 266712008) | |
| Answer To Question 7: Please see our response in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
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