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When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, the NHS says only minimal validation can be carried out but it is considered fit for purpose.Patients at A&E should be seen within four hours of arrival.
In Wales, bed wait data is not published, so the figure shown is the occupancy level in general and acute beds. Scotland and Northern Ireland do not publish bed wait or bed occupancy data.Data for England is show by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.
Comparative data from two years ago is shown where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Bed occupancy data in Wales only goes back to April 2020.More than 120,000 - almost one in three of those admitted - spent more than four hours waiting for a bed.Has the Omicron wave peaked already?On average, it took more than nine minutes to reach an immediately life-threatening callout in December - the target is seven.
When Fraser Farndon, from Greater Manchester, had a heart attack in 2016, he was on the operating table within an hour.
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