Press release

Statistical press notice: NHS 111 Minimum Data Set – March Release

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health: Call statistics to the NHS 111 service up to and including March …

From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published
4 May 2012
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:

Call statistics to the NHS 111 service up to and including March 2011 from the seven sites providing this service and able to provide data at this time. The sites are: County Durham and Darlington, Lincolnshire, Luton, Nottingham City,Isle of Wight, Derbyshire and the North West.

**The main findings for March 2011 were: **

  1. In March, there were 85,055 calls to the 111 service, with 80% of these calls from people directly dialling 111. Scaled up, this would represent 13.8 million calls per year across England to the NHS 111 service.
  2. In March, 98% of answered calls made to NHS 111 were answered within 60 seconds. Of all calls offered 1% were abandoned after waiting longer than 30 seconds.
  3. Average length of a call episode for data up to and including March was 9 minutes 41 seconds, with 79% of callers receiving a triage and 2% of answered calls called back.
  4. On average 30% of call time was handled by clinical staff for all calls up to and including March.
  5. For the period between April to October 2011, 92% of callers were very or fairly satisfied with their NHS 111 experience.

NHS 111 Statistics

Published 4 May 2012