More than a quarter of A&E patients wait longer than four hours at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust
More than a quarter of patients seeking A&E care at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust 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 Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust fell well behind that target in November, when just 73% of the 13,802 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 27% of patients attending major A&E at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust waited longer than four hours to be seen last month, compared to 26% in October, and 22% in November 2021.
Including the 308 attendances at other accident and emergency departments, such as minor A&Es and those with single specialties, 73% of A&E patients were seen by the trust within the target time in November.
At Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust:
In November:
There were 322 booked appointments, up from 285 in October
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Hide Ad1,023 patients waited longer than four hours for treatment following a decision to admit – 7% of patients
Of those, 375 were delayed by more than 12 hours
Separate NHS Digital data reveals that in October:
The median time to treatment was 145 minutes. The median average is used to ensure figures are not skewed by particularly long or short waiting times