The latest figures for A&E waiting times show that for the week 23 Feb-1 March, GWH’s performance put them one place from the bottom in the ‘league table’ of England’s 140 hospitals with major A&E departments. 70.3 per cent of those attending GWH’s A&E were seen, treated and discharged within four hours – against the target of 95 per cent.
The numbers attending A&E went up by 82 over the previous week – to 1,492. 443 of those had to wait more than four hours – up by 186 on the previous week.
Working from the experience of previous years, GWH always expected February to be the most challenging month of the winter period.
Strangely, some of the other performance indicators in GWH’s latest weekly figures are going in the right direction. Bed days lost to norovirus were down to 28 – a drop of 104 on the previous week and against the national average of 60.7 bed days lost.
Beds blocked because patients could not be moved to appropriate after care were down by 33 to 112 – against the national average figure of 131.8.
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