More than two in five A&E patients wait longer than four hours at Stockport Trust

More than two in five patients attending major A&E at the Stockport Trust waited longer than four hours to be dealt with last month, figures show.
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 two in five patients attending major A&E at the Stockport 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.

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But Stockport NHS Foundation Trust fell well behind that target in November, when just 58% of the 9,624 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 42% of patients attending major A&E at the Stockport Trust waited longer than four hours to be seen last month, compared to 44% in October, and 37% in November 2021.

At Stockport NHS Foundation Trust:

In November:

There were 645 booked appointments, up from 539 in October

1,181 patients waited longer than four hours for treatment following a decision to admit – 12% of patients

Of those, 231 were delayed by more than 12 hours

Separate NHS Digital data reveals that in October:

The median time to treatment was 120 minutes. The median average is used to ensure figures are not skewed by particularly long or short waiting times

Around 7% of patients left before being treated