From NHS Scotland:
- 92.2% of attendances at A&E services were seen and resulted in a subsequent admission, transfer or discharge within 4 hours.
- 93 patients spent more than 8 hours in an A&E department.
- 19 patients spent more than 12 hours in an A&E department.
Attendances at A&E services in NHS Scotland has seen a large drop (-31.5%) during the week ending 22 March 2020, this will be due to the measures put in place to respond to COVID-19.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
GMS will tell us all about it tomorrow, how marvelous our health service is , won’t they , I say again won’t they ? .
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And if BBC Scotland does surprise us all and report this – note to any of the BBC’s journalists/editors who visit the TUSC – then they should also feature A&E in NHS Tayside, that Health Board so often the target of negative features on Reporting Scotland.
Not only did Tayside achieve the 4 hour waiting time target for 97.5% of patients in A&E in the most recent figures, it has performed well into the 90’s in almost all months over the past c.2 years . So its recent stellar performance is only due to a reduction in numbers coming to A&E.
https://www.nhsperforms.scot/hospital-data/indicator-hospital?hospitalid=27&indicatorid=2
It will of course be important to look out for – to get ‘perspective’ from – what happens in NHS England’s Type 1 A&E facilities both in terms of admissions and waiting time performance. I’m sure the TUSC will step into the media vacuum in Scotland and provide this public service role in due course!!
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Urgh!
“So its recent stellar performance is NOT – repeat NOT – only due to a reduction in numbers coming to A&E.”
Urgh again!
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It is a good performance considering the strain all staff at all levels in NHS Scotland are under at this time.
I do wonder, however, why you omitted the total attendance at A&E departments in that week. It was just over 16,000 if I remember correctly. You would be the first to draw attention to such an omission on the part of the MSM and, rightly, criticise them for not reporting the whole picture.
The reduction in numbers does not detract from the performance but does raise interesting questions about why, Corvid-19 notwithstanding, the numbers are 10,000 to 14,000 lower than usual. Is it because there are fewer road accidents because of the reduction in traffic? Is it because there has been a reduction in industrial accidents because of the shutdown? The period covered is just before the full shutdown but it would still be interesting to interrogate the figures to find out what sort of attendances showed a reduction. After all GP surgeries were closing their doors so it might have been expected that people would turn to A&E under those circumstances.
NHS Tayside has led the way in A&E for some time something even the BBC News, not Reporting Scotland, highlighted a couple of years ago when their Health reporter, hugh Pym, reported from Ninewells. He highlighted the, then ,novel way A&E was organised and how it helped the efficient throughput of patients.
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I do wonder, however, why you omitted the total attendance at A&E departments in that week. It was just over 16,000 if I remember correctly. You would be the first to draw attention to such an omission on the part of the MSM and, rightly, criticise them for not reporting the whole picture.
True
Following BBC Editorial guidelines on what the public needs to know?
Talking-up Scotland?
I’m no angel. Who said that?
I’ll add it.
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