Less than 3/4 of A&E arrivals at MWL Hospitals seen within four hours

The NHS standard is for 95% of patients to be seen within four hours. However, as part of a recovery plan, the health service aims for 78% of patients to be seen within this time frame by March 2025. Recent NHS England figures show there were 24,697 visits to A&E at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in November.

Of them, 18,099 were seen within four hours – accounting for 73% of arrivals. About 72% of patients in England were seen within four hours in A&Es last month, down from 73% in October. Figures also show 45,791 emergency admissions waited more than 12 hours in A&E departments from a decision to admit to actually being admitted – an improvement from 49,592 the month before.



The number waiting at least four hours from a decision to admit to admission also fell, standing at 140,782 patients in November. At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS..

. Kelsey Maxwell.