I’m still watching the waiting time statistics for the
Accident and Emergency department at St. Peter’s hospital, Chertsey.
Like many other A and E’s, they have been missing their
targets over this tough winter.
Except that at Christmas St. Peter's had to declare an emergency and bring in some
fairly drastic measures to try to deal with the problem.
And it was already going on for much of 2014, as I’ve been
recording on this Blog.
The government target is that 95% of patients should be seen
and admitted or discharged in less than 4 hours.
The figures for week ending 18th January 2015 are
now out.
Ashford and St. Peter’s are still missing their target;
Only 93.8% of patients were seen within the time limit while
of the most serious cases only 92.8% were seen in time.
It doesn’t make pretty reading and the bare statistics hide
the very human situation that people are hanging about in fear and pain instead
of being seen when they should have been.
It also hides another story – in order to try to reduce
waiting times, planned operations will have been cancelled to free up beds.
Perhaps I should start researching those figures too?
Yup!
Neil Harris
(a don’t stop till you drop production)
Contact me: neilwithpromisestokeep@gmail.com
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