30/06/15 09:35
A&E performance
Weekly waiting times published.
The proportion of patients seen within four hours in Scotland’s emergency departments has increased by nearly two percentage points.
In the week ending 21 June, 93.9 per cent of people were seen and subsequently admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. This is an increase from 92.2 per cent the previous week, and the highest figure since weekly reporting began in February.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said:
“Today’s figures show an overall improvement of nearly eight percentage points since weekly reporting began in February. This demonstrates that, supported by the Scottish Government, our NHS staff are working extremely hard to cut waiting times and deliver a first class service.
“I appreciate that there will be fluctuation in performance but I am confident that we are making progress. Long waits in particular have seen a further reduction since last week and, in fact, a substantial reduction since weekly reporting began in February.
“The new South Glasgow University hospital has seen a solid improvement in these figures with performance increasing by 11 percentage points, to 89.6 per cent. I would pay tribute to the staff for their hard work in making this happen. Staff at the hospital have worked closely with the support team over the last two weeks and have put in place a number of actions that have supported this improvement. We will remain in close contact with the board to ensure that this progress is sustained.
“There is still much work to do, but we have put record funding and staffing in place and we are committed to tackling delayed discharge, including through the integration of health and social care. That means we have the strong foundations in place to ensure our NHS continues to deliver quick, high quality care for the people of Scotland.
“This week has seen the highest percentage of people seen and treated within four hours since weekly reporting began. The summer months do tend to show improvement, so what is important now is that we retain these levels of performance as we head towards next winter and make more, sustainable progress towards meeting our world leading targets.”
Over the week ending 23:59 on Sunday the 21st June 2015 –
- There were 25,338 attendances to Scotland’s 30 Emergency Departments.
- The proportion of attendances to those 30 Emergency Departments that were seen and subsequently admitted, transferred or discharged within 4 hours was 93.9%.
- 80 patients (0.3%) spent more than 8 hours and 1 patient (< 0.1%) spent more than 12 hours in the 30 Emergency Departments.
The publication of weekly A&E waiting time statistics covers the 30 emergency departments in Scotland which provide a 24 hour emergency medicine consultant led service.
The statistics relate to patients who were seen and subsequently admitted, transferred or discharged within 4, 8 and 12 hours.
The latest Weekly Statistical Publication is available on the ISD Scotland website: http://www.isdscotland.org/
The figures are also available on the NHS Performs website: nhsperforms.scot
NHS Performs
Information Services Division and Health Protection Scotland have collaborated with the Scottish Government to develop the new standalone website, NHS Performs, nhsperforms.scot
Launched today (30 June) the new website will provide readily accessible performance statistics at hospital and health board level.
Topics include weekly A&E waiting time figures, monthly delayed discharge figures, and monthly cancelled operations statistics.
NHS Performs includes data that has been previously published (or published simultaneously). The information included in NHS Performs is a small selection of data published by ISD.
Currently users are able to select one of the 30 hospitals in Scotland that have a core A&E, and then view a suite of indicators and trend charts. Additional hospitals are being considered for inclusion in future updates.
Over the summer, user and public engagement will be carried out to specifically inform the development of further content and any revisions to the structure and presentation of the site.