More seen at Shropshire's A&Es in target time
The number of patients being seen within the target four hours at Shropshire's accident and emergency departments has increased for the second week in a row, figures have shown.
But at 81.1 per cent, it is the 21st week in a row that the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust has missed the Government's target of 95 per cent of patients to be seen within four hours.
Shropshire's two A&Es at Telford's Princess Royal Hospital and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital saw 2,028 people in the week up to February 15, the latest figures available. That number is down by 79 on the week before. Of those, 445 people were admitted.
The 81.1 per cent figure equates to 383 people waiting longer than four hours to be seen, treated and admitted or discharged . That figure is down by 15 on the previous week but well above the England average of 251.
The national percentage figure, according to the new statistics, is 91.6 per cent, down from 92.9 per cent the previous week.
There are currently just 24 hospital trusts meeting the 95 per cent gold standard, with 116 major A&E trusts below it, including Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust. Nationally, it is the 20th week in succession that the goal of 95 per cent has been missed.
In Shropshire, 13 planned operations were cancelled, down by four from the week before but above the national average of 10.
The number of ambulance "queuing" outside the hospital, waiting at least half an hour to transfer a patient into the care of hospital staff, was also down on the week before by five to 57.
There was also a fall in the number of delayed discharges, where a hospital is unable to release a patient because of a lack of support available in the community. This was down by seven to 181.
But the number of beds unavailable due to diarrhoea and vomiting or norovirus-like symptoms increased 100 per cent to 52.
