A&E waiting times hit all-time high in Greater Manchester in July
14.08.2022 - 12:03
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More patients at Manchester's hospitals faced long waits for A&E and ambulance services in July than any other month on record, new figures show. Last month in Greater Manchester, almost 1,751 people endured more than 12 hours of waiting in A&E for a bed on a ward, after medics decided they were unwell enough to be admitted to hospital.
That figure comes as a stark difference from just 158 patients facing this wait in July 2021, according to data published by NHS England. It marks the highest number of people facing long waits for a ward bed since monthly records began in June 2015.
Ambulance waiting times were also longer than in previous months. North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) took eight minutes and 39 seconds on average to respond to the highest priority life-threatening calls (category one), above the seven-minute target. Category two emergency calls - which include urgent illnesses and injuries such as heart attacks and strokes - took an average of 50 minutes and 29 seconds in July, far beyond the 18-minute average response time.
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A total of 118,586 people arrived at Greater Manchester’s A&Es in July, down from 119,092 in June. Almost 40 per cent of them faced waiting more than four hours before being admitted, discharged or transferred - the NHS target states that only 5 per cent should wait this long.
For North West Ambulance Service, the number of life-threatening calls has risen by '5 per cent for the year so far, compared to last year'. The rise in emergency calls and 'significantly high levels of patients' going to A&E are being met with a severe number of patients medically fit for discharge, who have to be left in hospital
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