I think I've worked it out.

Right, I think I’ve worked it out.

 

This is from the Ashford and St. Peter’s Foundation Trust Board Meeting the documents are dated 30^th May 2013. It’s not in the same form as in the report it’s in PDF form and won’t copy directly.

 

The ‘SITREP’ figures don’t include the Ashford figures – Ashford cases are much easier to deal with and would normally always be dealt with in less than 4 hours – they are patients who walk in and are sent home, whereas at St. Peter’s they usually arrive by Ambulance. After my operation it’s where I was told to go to get my dressing changes, which I did twice – hardly emergency treatment.

From the report;

  

 

4 HOUR STANDARD FOR WAITING TIMES IN A&E

 

 

 

As Figure 2 demonstrates, the Trust failed to meet the four hour standard for waiting times in A&E during April for the purpose of the Monitor Compliance Framework.

 

In addition to this, the standard was not met for St. Peter’s Hospital alone and the Trust will therefore incur a financial penalty under the terms of the contract with North-West Surrey CCG.

 

 

Period          SITREP Position                                                    MONITOR Position

                    (SPH, EPU & GUM)                                                (SPH, EPU, GUM, ASH)

 

Quarter 1             93.61%                                                                        95.63%

 

Quarter 2             95.80%                                                                        97.10%

 

Quarter 3             93.97%                                                                        95.88%

 

January                90.51%                                                                        93.30%

February              88.63%                                                                         92.00%

March                   88.70%                                                                        92.11%

 

Quarter 4            89.29%                                                                         92.47%

 

 

2012/13Total       93.18%                                                                        95.29%

 

April                     90.82%                                                                         93.56%

 

May to date          92.5%                                                                          94.7%

 

Whilst 4 hour performance for quarter 1 to date is currently below the Compliance Framework standard, it remains in line with the trajectory submitted to Monitor in March 2013, as shown in Figures 3 and 4.

At this stage the Trust is still endeavouring to meet the 95% standard for quarter one as a whole, although this is a significant risk.

Further detail about 4 hour compliance from a strategy perspective is included in a separate Board paper.

 

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On the SITREP figures (the official NHS figures), they missed the 4 hour target in 3 of the four quarters last year, as well as every month this year, that’s far worse than last year.

 

‘Monitor’, is a fairly toothless state regulator for the Foundation Trusts, it seems to allow the Trust to water down the waiting times using Ashford’s ‘Walk-in’ waiting times, so those figures look better – how can they be?

 

Even on those dodgy figures they missed the target Quarter 4 and also missed the target in the first two months in the first quarter of this year.

 

That’s a foul in my book – Ref?

 

Neil Harris

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