More than half of A&E patients wait longer than four hours at King's College Hospital
More than half of patients seeking A&E care at King's College Hospital waited longer than four hours to be dealt with last month, figures show.
NHS guidance states that 95% of patients attending accident and emergency departments should be admitted to hospital, transferred elsewhere or discharged within four hours.
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Hide AdBut King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust fell well behind that target in November, when just 43% of the 15,269 attendances at type 1 A&E departments were dealt with within four hours, according to figures from NHS England.
Type 1 departments are those which provide major emergency services – with full resuscitation equipment and 24-hour consultant-led care – and account for the majority of attendances nationally.
It means 57% of patients attending major A&E at King's College Hospital waited longer than four hours to be seen last month, compared to 56% in October, and 44% in November 2021.
Including the 9,321 attendances at other accident and emergency departments, such as minor A&Es and those with single specialties, 56% of A&E patients were seen by the trust within the target time in November.
At King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust:
In November:
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2,432 patients waited longer than four hours for treatment following a decision to admit – 10% of patients
Of those, 872 were delayed by more than 12 hours
Separate NHS Digital data reveals that in October:
The median time to treatment was 125 minutes. The median average is used to ensure figures are not skewed by particularly long or short waiting times
Around 10% of patients left before being treated