{"id":35963,"date":"2017-01-09T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T10:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=35963"},"modified":"2017-01-09T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T10:58:29","slug":"jeremy-hunt-is-lying-data-shows-january-is-often-the-quietest-time-of-the-year-for-a-e-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/01\/09\/jeremy-hunt-is-lying-data-shows-january-is-often-the-quietest-time-of-the-year-for-a-e-departments\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Hunt is lying: data shows January is often the quietest time of the year for A &#038; E departments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hunt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/jan\/09\/jeremy-hunt-denies-red-cross-claim-of-nhs-humanitarian-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">apparently said on Good Morning Britain<\/a> this morning that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is always the busiest week but we need to work with the public to understand that accident and emergency departments are there for what it says on the tin, for accidents and emergencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just thought I would check. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/statistics\/statistical-work-areas\/ae-waiting-times-and-activity\/statistical-work-areasae-waiting-times-and-activityweekly-ae-sitreps-2015-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">most recent weekly admission data for A&amp;E departments I could find<\/a> covered 2010 to 2105. I plotted total admissions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/01\/09\/jeremy-hunt-is-lying-data-shows-january-is-often-the-quietest-time-of-the-year-for-a-e-departments\/screen-shot-2017-01-09-at-10-46-04\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35964\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-10.46.04-550x368.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-01-09-at-10-46-04\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-10.46.04-550x368.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-10.46.04-448x300.png 448w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-10.46.04-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-10.46.04-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-10.46.04-197x132.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-10.46.04.png\" target=\"_blank\">larger version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But just for the record, the troughs are always in the winter - and often at almost exactly this time of the year. \u00a0The peaks are always in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hunt is not telling the truth. We've just been through the quietest time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hunt apparently said on Good Morning Britain this morning that: This is always the busiest week but we need to work with the public<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/01\/09\/jeremy-hunt-is-lying-data-shows-january-is-often-the-quietest-time-of-the-year-for-a-e-departments\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}