FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02880
- Request Date
- December 24, 2018
- Subject
- Decision To Admission Time
- Description
1.The number of patients spending more than 12 hours from decision to admit to admission (also known as a “trolley wait”)
I would like the above figures for the financial years:
(a) 2010/11
(b) 2015/16
(c) 2016/17
(d) 2017/18
(e) 2018 to date
2. The number of those patients detailed in (1) who were mental health patients. (Please indicate how your records show that they were mental health patients – eg did they go to a mental health facility from A&E?)
3. Of the patients in (2) the longest that any one person had to wait.
- Response
· 2010/11 – 0 · 2014/15 – 2 0 mental health
· 2015/16 – 0
· 2016/17 – 33 0 mental health
· 2017/18 – 266 20 mental health
· 2018/19 – 210 158 mental health
The data for mental health is obtained from the presenting complaint recorded on the system for attendance on or before 31/12/2017 The mental health data for 2018 is obtained from the specialty the patient was referred to.
Max wait time 2017/18 was 7736 minutes. Max wait time 2018/19 was 5594 minutes.