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Figures from NHS England showed 21.8% of patients had to wait at least 12 hours to receive emergency treatment at Worcestershire's hospitals last month, the fifth highest proportion in the country.
The latest monthly figures from NHS England showed 42,078 people waited more than 12 hours in A&E departments in April from a decision to admit to actually being admitted, down slightly from ...
The number of patients waiting more than a year for treatment was also its lowest since December 2020, NHS England said. NHS meets four-hour A&E target for first time as overall wait list ...
NHS targets are performance measures used by NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the Health and Social Care service in Northern Ireland.These vary by country but assess the performance of each health service against measures such as 4 hour waiting times in Accident and Emergency departments, weeks to receive an appointment and/or treatment, and performance in specific departments such as ...
A&E services in the UK are often the focus of a great deal of media and political interest, and data on A&E performance is published weekly. [29] However, this is only one part of a complex urgent and emergency care system. Reducing A&E waiting times therefore requires a comprehensive, coordinated strategy across a range of related services. [30]
The NHS has been ordered to drive improvements in hospital waiting times and cancer care while at the same time cutting costs. New planning guidance for the health service in England, which sets ...
The key NHS performance indicators (18 weeks (RTT), 4 hours (A&E) and cancer (2 week wait) have not been achieved since February 2016, July 2015 and December 2015 respectively. [77] A ranking of individual hospitals around the world, published by Newsweek in March 2022, no NHS hospital was listed within the top 40.
Research by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine also said the UK has the second lowest number of beds per 1,000 people in the EU.