The latest figures for waiting times atg Ashford and St. Peter’s
Hospitals are now out covering for week ending 11th January 2015.
It is probably no surprise that despite a slight improvement,
the figures are still far below the Government’s requirement that 95% of
patients at Accident and Emergency departments are admitted or discharged
within 4 hours.
There were 1852 patients seen at St. Peter’s but only 78.9%
of the most serious cases were seen with in 4 hours while for all cases
(including less serious ones) only 82.1% were seen within the time limit.
Why is this happening?
Not enough staff, inadequate organisation and triage and the perennial
problem that there aren’t enough beds (because there aren’t enough nurses) so
that admissions can’t be taken out of A and E and into beds for treatment
quickly enough.
Just waiting for the Flu season and the cold weather to end
isn’t good enough.
Neil Harris
(a don’t stop till you drop production)
Contact me: neilwithpromisestokeep@gmail.com
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