Waiting times on the rise
A&E target is missed
Waiting times at University Hospital Hairmyres’ A&E department have continued to rise.
Latest statistics released show that for the week ending Sunday, July 1, 84.9 per cent of patients were a d mi t t e d , d i s c ha r g e d o r transferred within four hours.
The Scottish Government target is 95 per cent.
Within NHS Lanarkshire as a whole, 89.5 per cent of patients were seen within four hours and the average figure for NHS Scotland was 90.8 per cent.
The figures also reveal that 21 patients waited over eight hours and 10 waited more than 12 hours at Hairmyres during that week.
Hairmyres continues t o have the longest waiting times of NHS Lanarkshire’s three acute sites.
For the same period, University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie saw 95.3 per cent of patients within four h o u r s. Meanwhil e, Uni v e r s i t y Hospital Wishaw’s A&E unit saw 88.1 per cent of patients within the target time.
At Monkl a n d s, f i v e p a t i e nt s waited more than eight hours and no one waited more than 12 while at Wishaw 20 waited more than eight hours and, again, nobody waited over 12.
Statistics for the previous week ending Sunday, June 24, reveal 9 0 . 1 pe r c e nt o f pat i e nt s were seen within f our hours with 16 patients waiting over eight hours and t wo over 12 at Hair myres. This compares to 96 per cent at Monklands and 93.7 per cent at Wishaw.
J o a n n e E d ward s, Uni v e r s i t y Hospital Hair myres director of hospital services told last month t hat May s aw t he hi g hest e v e r number of attendees at A&E, with this trend carrying on into June.