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 30th 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
(a
don’t stop till you drop production)
Contact: neilwithpromisestokeep@gmail.com
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