Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Accident and Emergency Departments
(asked on 1st February 2018) - View Source
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 patients waiting to be handed over to A&E had to wait for longer than 30 minutes in (a) an ambulance, (b) a hospital department other than A&E and (c) in the hospital vicinity at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the last month for which data is available.
The information is not held in the format requested. NHS England publishes weekly winter situational reports showing the number of ambulances arriving at accident and emergency (A&E) as well as the number of ambulances that experienced a delay of 30 minutes or more on arrival. This is published at a trust and national level and is available at the following link:
Data on the number and proportion of patients waiting to be handed over to A&E who had to wait longer than 30 minutes in a hospital department other than A&E or in the hospital vicinity is not collected centrally.