More than a third of A&E patients wait longer than four hours at Guy's and St Thomas' Trust

More than a third of patients seeking A&E care at Guy's and St Thomas' 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.

But Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust fell well behind that target in November, when just 63% of the 12,824 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 37% of patients attending major A&E at Guy's and St Thomas' Trust waited longer than four hours to be seen last month, compared to 34% in October, and 23% in November 2021.

Including the 4,977 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 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust:

In November:

There were 1,755 booked appointments, down from 1,794 in October

118 patients waited longer than four hours for treatment following a decision to admit– less than 0.5% of patients

Of those, 38 were delayed by more than 12 hours

Separate NHS Digital data reveals that in October:

Around 4% of patients left before being treated