The figures for A&E waiting times over the October-December 2014 quarter were bad enough: 92.6 per cent of patients attending A&E were admitted (or discharged) within four hours against the target of 95 per cent.
We now have the figures for the week across the New Year holiday – 29 December to 4 January – and the NHS data shows some criteria getting considerably worse while others have shown improvement. But the proportion of patients attending A&E and being admitted to hoispital or discharged within the four hour target was down across England to 86.7 per cent.
These are the figures for the Great Western Hospital in Swindon – the hospital which covers the Marlborough area. They are taken from BBC News’ analysis that is published on their website.
GWH was one of the 133 major A&E hospital trusts to miss the 95 per cent target – 25 hospitals returned worse figures for this target than GWH.
| DATA FOR 29 DECEMBER-TO- 4 JANUARY | Great Western Hospital | Average for major A&E hospitals in England |
|
A&E patients admitted/dischaged within 4 hours |
71.7 per cent | 86.7 per cent |
| Numbers attending A&E | 1,568 – up 60 | |
| Emergency admissions | 502 – up 40 | |
| People waiting more than 4 hrs to be admitted or discharged | 443 – up 193 | 383 – up 115 |
| Ambulances waiting more than 30 minutes at A&E to transfer patients | 4 – down 22 | 37.2 – down 6.6 |
| Planned operations cancelled | 5 – up 2 | 9.0 – down 0.7 |
| Beds blocked (patients ready to leave hospital but suitable care not available) | 123 – down 7 | 132.4 – down 5.0 |
| Bed days lost by closures due to norovirus | 0 – no change | 13.9 – down 14.7 |
