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Written question asked by Brian Jenkins (Labour) on Wednesday, 29 November 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 4 December 2006. It was answered by Andy Burnham (Labour) on Wednesday, 13 December 2006 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Good Hope Hospital

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was in accident and emergency at Good Hope hospital in each of the last ten years.
Answer

The Department does not collect data at the level of individual hospitals. Information on the percentage of patients admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of their arrival at accident and emergency (A&E) departments was first published for the period July to September 2002-03. This continues to be published quarterly. The information available for the Good Hope hospital national health service trust is shown in the following table.Total time spent in A&E from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge, Good Hope hospitals NHS trust, quarter 2 2002-03 to quarter 2 2006-07.

Quarter Year Percentage of patients spending under four hours between arrival in A&E and admission, transfer or discharge
Q2 2002-03 81.2
Q3 2002-03 72.7
Q4 2002-03 77.0
Q1 2003-04 85.8
Q2 2003-04 87.8
Q3 2003-04 93.0
Q4 2003-04 92.4
Q1 2004-05 95.6
Q2 2004-05 97.4
Q3 2004-05 95.9
Q4 2004-05 96.2
Q1 2005-06 97.0
Q2 2005-06 97.2
Q3 2005-06 96.2
Q4 2005-06 95.8
Q1 2006-07 96.0
Q2 2006-07 95.6
Notes:
Good Hope hospitals NHS trust has only ever provided on type one A&E department, i.e. no type two or type three departments.
Source:
Department of Health dataset QMAE

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
454 c1169-70W;454 c1170-71W; 107639
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Accident and emergency departments Good Hope Hospital
Link
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