Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
(asked on 23rd July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of waiting times at A&E at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
NHS England publishes monthly performance data for accident and emergency (A&E) waiting times for each trust rather than individual hospital site level. Performance data for the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust can be found at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
East Lancashire Hospitals Trust A&E performance | June 2019 | May 2019 | June 2018 |
% seen in 4 hours or less | 81.4% | 78.4% | 85.6% |
Total attendances | 15,621 | 16,180 | 17,371 |
Total attendances in 4 hours or less | 12,714 | 12,683 | 14,863 |
Source: NHS England Operational Statistics1
Despite continued high numbers of attendees, performance shows, on average, more than four out of five attendees are seen/treated/admitted/discharged within four hours of arrival. This level of performance has been sustained throughout the months of May, June and July.
The Trust is working hard to ensure robust plans are in place to achieve the A&E standard of 95% of patients admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arrival in all types of A&E departments.
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