Nearly half of A&E patients wait longer than four hours at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospitals Trust

Nearly half of patients seeking A&E care at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospitals Trust waited longer than four hours to be dealt with last month, figures show.

NHS guidance states that 95% of patients attending accident and emergency departments should be admitted to hospital, transferred elsewhere or discharged within four hours.

But University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust fell well behind that target in November, when just 51% of the 11,965 attendances at type 1 A&E departments were dealt with within four hours, according to figures from NHS England.

Type 1 departments are those which provide major emergency services – with full resuscitation equipment and 24-hour consultant-led care – and account for the majority of attendances nationally.

It means 49% of patients attending major A&E at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospitals Trust waited longer than four hours to be seen last month, compared to 50% in October, and 49% in November 2021.

Including the 3,862 attendances at other accident and emergency departments, such as minor A&Es and those with single specialties, 62% of A&E patients were seen by the trust within the target time in November.

At University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust:

In November:

There were 75 booked appointments, down from 85 in October

1,087 patients waited longer than four hours for treatment following a decision to admit – 7% of patients

Of those, four were delayed by more than 12 hours

Separate NHS Digital data reveals that in October:

The median time to treatment was 76 minutes. The median average is used to ensure figures are not skewed by particularly long or short waiting times

Around 5% of patients left before being treated