Half of patients seeking A&E care at the Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust waited longer than four hours to be dealt with last month, figures show.
NHS guidance states that 95% of patients attending accident and emergency departments should be admitted to hospital, transferred elsewhere or discharged within four hours.
But Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust fell well behind that target in November, when just 50% of the 12,026 attendances at type 1 A&E departments were dealt with within four hours, according to figures from NHS England.
Type 1 departments are those which provide major emergency services – with full resuscitation equipment and 24-hour consultant-led care – and account for the majority of attendances nationally.
It means 50% of patients attending major A&E at the Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust waited longer than four hours to be seen last month, compared to 51% in October, and 39% in November 2021.
Including the 2,777 attendances at other accident and emergency departments, such as minor A&Es and those with single specialties, 59% of A&E patients were seen by the trust within the target time in November.
At Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust:
In November:
- There were 1,284 booked appointments, down from 1,320 in October
- 1,243 patients waited longer than four hours for treatment following a decision to admit – 8% of patients
- Of those, 257 were delayed by more than 12 hours
Separate NHS Digital data reveals that in October:
- The median time to treatment was 98 minutes. The median average is used to ensure figures are not skewed by particularly long or short waiting times
- Around 16% of patients left before being treated