How many Yorkshire patients seen within four hours by hospital trust - and how many waited far longer
Thousands of people across Yorkshire have been made to wait more than four hours after arriving at A&E for treatment.
The NHS says its standard is for 95 per cent of patients to be seen within four hours of arriving at an A&E department. However, a recovery plan is currently in place to try to get hospitals back up to this target, with the plan stating that the objective is for 78 per cent of patients to be seen within this timeframe by March 2025.
Now, statistics show only some NHS Trusts in Yorkshire are meeting this lower target, with many people left waiting hours for treatment.
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Here are the NHS Trusts across Yorkshire, along with the proportion of patients seen within four hours, and how many were left waiting longer in August 2024. The number of people waiting longer than 12 hours is included in the number of people waiting longer than four hours, but is also provided separately.
Airedale: 4,093 (64%) seen within four hours, 520 left waiting more than four hours, 101 delayed by 12 hours
Barnsley: 6,640 (78%) seen within four hours, 224 waiting longer than four hours
Bradford: 10,507 (83%) seen within four hours, 707 waiting longer than four hours, 64 delayed by 12 hours
Calderdale and Huddersfield: 10,592 (72%) within four hours, 886 waiting longer than four hours, two delayed by 12 hours
Doncaster and Bassetlaw: 11,960 (73%) within four hours, 1,066 waiting longer than four hours, 82 delayed by 12 hours
Harrogate and District: 4,938 (80%) within four hours, 216 waiting longer than four hours, four delayed by 12 hours.
Leeds: 21,019 (78%) within four hours, 1,648 waiting longer than four hours, 67 delayed by 12 hours
Mid Yorkshire: 15,172 (71%) within four hours, 2,389 waiting longer than four hours, 118 delayed by 12 hours
Rotherham: 5,566 (69%) seen within four hours, 337 waiting longer than four hours
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals: 13,397 (74%) seen within four hours, 1,110 waiting longer than four hours, 13 delayed by 12 hours
Sheffield Children's Trust: 3,620 (95%) seen within four hours, one waiting longer than four hours
York and Scarborough: 11,454 (66%) seen within four hours, 1,218 waiting longer than four hours, 388 delayed by 12 hours
Across England, 76 per cent of patients were seen within four hours, which is up from 75 per cent in July. However, 28,494 emergency admissions waited more than 12 hours in A&E departments from a decision to admit to actually being admitted.
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This is down from 36,806 in July. Meanwhile the number of people waiting at least four hours from the decision to admit to admission also dropped, from 129,330 in July to 116,489 last months.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to tackle the long waiting lists, as well as improve the health of the nation and shift the focus towards community services. This follows a report from Lord Darzi which found the NHS is "in serious trouble".
Completed in nine weeks, this review worked to diagnose the problems in the NHS in England and set out the themes for the government to incorporate into a ten-year-plan to reform the health service. It argues the NHS is facing rising demand for care as people live longer in ill health, coupled with low productivity in hospitals and poor staff morale.
Speaking at the King’s Fund annual conference in London, Sir Keir Starmer said: "NHS staff are working harder than ever but productivity has fallen because patients can’t be discharged. Clinicians are spending their time trying to find beds rather than treating more patients. That isn’t just solved by more money, it’s solved by reform."
About 2.2 million people attended A&E departments across England last month. The overall number of attendances to A&E at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in August was a drop of 5 per cent on the 18,246 visits recorded during July, and 12 per cent lower than the 19,710 patients seen in August 2023.
The NHS said emergency departments experienced the busiest summer ever with a combined 6,776,150 attendances in June, July and August combined – up 240,776 on the same period last year. Professor Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said preparations had begun for an "extremely difficult winter".
He added Lord Darzi's review makes it clear waits across a range of services "remain unacceptable".
Siva Anandaciva, King's Fund chief analyst, said the review is an "opportunity for radical change rather than just tinkering", adding emergency care played a prominent part in the report.
He said: "While there is some variation in performance, not a single hospital operating a major A&E department in England is currently meeting A&E performance standards. We don’t need an independent review to know that NHS performance is bad and that the government has received a troubled inheritance. What we need is a mandate for change."