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Good Hope Hospital

Volume 454: debated on Wednesday 13 December 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was in accident and emergency at Good Hope hospital in each of the last ten years. (107639)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations have been carried out at Good Hope hospital in each of the last ten years. (107640)

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