More than a third of A&E patients wait longer than four hours at Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital

More than a third of patients seeking A&E care at Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital waited longer than four hours to be dealt with last month, figures show.
By Katie Williams, Data Reporter
Published 8th Dec 2022, 12:28 BST
General view of an Accident and Emergency Sign at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. General view of an Accident and Emergency Sign at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
General view of an Accident and Emergency Sign at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

More than a third of patients seeking A&E care at Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital 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.

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But Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust fell well behind that target in November, when just 63% of the 6,849 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 37% of patients attending major A&E at Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital waited longer than four hours to be seen last month, compared to 2% in October, and 22% in November 2021.