PERFORMANCE: An “extremely busy” few months have put pressure on staff and services at Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, causing the organisation to miss two performance targets.
Council of governors papers reveal that the trust fell just short of its target referral to treatment times.
In February, the most recent month for which data was available, 94.8 per cent of patients were treated within 23 weeks. The year to date figure was worse, at 93.8 per cent. The 95th percentile wait was a week longer than target, reported as being “23/24 weeks”.
Performance data also revealed the trust was struggling on accident and emergency targets. It fell 0.7 per cent short of the target of having 95 per cent of patients admitted or discharged within four hours.
“The last three months have been extremely busy across the whole of the NHS and our hospitals have experienced significant pressure as a result of emergency admissions,” the papers said.
“This has impacted on our ability to deliver some of our performance targets, as indicated above, and has also put additional pressure on our staff. A number of changes have been put in place, with some more to follow, to improve our systems and processes to help both patients and staff.”
These measures included reviewing bed capacity at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, “to ensure we have sufficient beds for emergency admissions”, and GP referral pathways “to unblock the emergency department and enable faster ambulance transfer”.
Nurse recruitment was also being speeded up.
Source date
May 2012
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