Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of ambulance handovers at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust were delayed by more than (a) 30 minutes and (b) 60 minutes in the last three months for which data is available.
Ambulance handover performance for Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust during the last three months for which data is available (December 2017 – February 2018) is shown in the table below:
| December 2017 | January 2018 | February 2018 |
Trust: Arriving by ambulance | 2,888 | 2,819 | 2,354 |
Trust: Delay 30-60 mins | 376 | 312 | 269 |
Trust: Delay more than 60 mins | 272 | 219 | 158 |
Trust: Percentage Delayed more than 30 minutes | 22.4% | 18.8% | 18.1% |
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