Ambulance to A&E transfers: New data reveals the worst region in England for handover times | UK News

The patients in Southwest of England has to wait almost three and a half years. half times longer to get out of ambulances and to the emergency department compared to national average.

Analysis of NHS Sky News data found in for the week ending January 1, 2023 is took middle of two hours and 39 minutes in hand over patients to hospitals in in the region compared to 46 minutes nationally.

Target in England 15 minutes.

Numbers also show in six NHS hospital funds with longest transmission times in England all in Southwest.

These are: Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon University Hospitals, Great Western Hospitals, Royal Cornwall Hospitals, North Bristol and Gloucestershire Hospitals.

So bad it’s a problem that hospitals in in region began to discharge patients who live quite well in local hotels commonly used by tourists, in application for release up bed space.

sky news also found 55% of ambulances in there were transmission delays in the Southwest of more than an hour twice as bad as the average for England of 26%.

older populationspread more remotely, is part of of in reason, NHS England told Sky News that recruitment and sickness, the number of sick patients and tardiness in discharge of patients from the hospital is everything causes.

In Helston in Cornwall, 85-year-Old Kulla Mehamikos is recovering from a broken hip.

She fell in her hallway last August – and had to wait 14 hours for ambulance arrive – and then another 26 hours in in back of ambulance outside Royal Hospital of Cornwall.

‘I would be better off die’

“They said that we just waiting for ambulance free up come to you – we are not know how long will it be like we are so busyKulla said daughter Marianne Flint.

“It was a little panic because with this length of time, mom then got to the point of looked rather pale and in a great amount of pain, she added.

While she praised the care given to her by the paramedics and hospital staff, her mother had to wait in in back of ambulance for more than worried all day.

“Essentially, ambulances are now waiting rooms because there is no room. in to take them to the hospital – there is no extra wing, no bed space.”

Kulla told Sky News she remembers “freezing” during on in floor. “It was scary, more scary than anything. I completely lost my mind. i would be better [to] die…so many hours.”

The Royal Cornish Hospital offered Kulla and Marianne their “sincere” apologies.

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Anne-Marie Perry – CEO of AbiCare, a company that run so-called “Hotels of care” since COVID-19 flash.

“One of in one of lockdown is coming out of hospital community care provision, social care, she said.

“So if there is no position in in the community you can’t get people home if you can’t get people homethey stay in hospital. If they stay in hospital, there is a whole host of challenges associated with this hospital have become addicted.”

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She told Sky News that the assistance offered could be cheaper than hospital beds.

“It people who are deemed fit for health reasons to receive out of hospital go home but they can’t go home Because no package of take care to wrap around them.

“We offer rehabilitation, we offer exercise lessons, we offer social activity also. So we great intermediate”.

What the NHS had to say

Reacting to the situation in Southwest, representative for NHS England South West said: “There are several interdependent reasons. for ambulance transfer delays including number of reception of sick patients in the hospital, recruitment and illness of staff, as well as delays with Discharging patients when they feel well enough.

“We are working hard with Integrated Care Councils, Hospital Trusts and our Ambulance Service to address these delays and ensure patients transferred over in hospitals in timely way ensure ambulances can receive back on road to help other patients as quickly as possible.”