The Department does not collect data at the level of individual hospitals. Information on the percentage of patients admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of their arrival at accident and emergency (A&E) departments was first published for the period July to September 2002-03. This continues to be published quarterly. The information available for the Good Hope hospital national health service trust is shown in the following table.
Total time spent in A&E from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge, Good Hope hospitals NHS trust, quarter 2 2002-03 to quarter 2 2006-07.
Quarter Year Percentage of patients spending under four hours between arrival in A&E and admission, transfer or discharge Q2 2002-03 81.2 Q3 2002-03 72.7 Q4 2002-03 77.0 Q1 2003-04 85.8 Q2 2003-04 87.8 Q3 2003-04 93.0 Q4 2003-04 92.4 Q1 2004-05 95.6 Q2 2004-05 97.4 Q3 2004-05 95.9 Q4 2004-05 96.2 Q1 2005-06 97.0 Q2 2005-06 97.2 Q3 2005-06 96.2 Q4 2005-06 95.8 Q1 2006-07 96.0 Q2 2006-07 95.6 Notes: Good Hope hospitals NHS trust has only ever provided on type one A&E department, i.e. no type two or type three departments. Source: Department of Health dataset QMAE
The information requested is not available in the format required. However, the count of all in-patient procedures for the Good Hope hospital NHS trust for 1995-96 to 2004 is in the following table.
Total procedures 2004-05 96,697 2003-04 90,256 2002-03 82,849 2001-02 77,847 2000-01 77,602 1999-00 74,261 1998-99 72,644 1997-98 63,911 1996-97 62,324 1995-96 58,079 Notes: Total procedures. These figures represent a count of all FCE’s where the procedure was mentioned in any of the 12 (four prior to 2002-03) operation fields in a HES record. In-patients. In-patients are defined as patients who are admitted to hospital and occupy a bed, including both admissions where an overnight stay is planned and day cases. Many operations take place in an outpatient setting and HES does not capture these figures therefore do not represent the total number of operations performed by this trust. Ungrossed Data. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed) Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for Health and Social Care