‘Misleading’ A&E figures in England hiding poor performance | NHS

Sadly refers to NHS bosses. The people determining the results are the elected (for now) Ministers. It is vey much a case with all recent legislation klook at the nitrous oxide debacle) that whre they don't like the answers, they force their own picture. You can say it has always beenthis way, it has. Just never this awefully blatant.

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NHS bosses are using misleading figures to hide dangerously poor performance by A&E units in England against the four-hour treatment target, emergency department doctors claim.

Some A&Es treat and admit, transfer or discharge as few as one in three patients within four hours, although the NHS constitution says they should deal with 95% of arrivals within that timeframe.

It is urging NHS England to start publishing data that shows the true performance of every individual emergency department against the 95% standard.

It showed that between April and June this year Pilgrim hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, managed to deal with only 33% of patients within four hours, the lowest proportion in the country.

Similarly, North West Anglia trust’s overall 56.3% performance disguised the fact that the A&E at its Peterborough city hospital site scored just 38.1%.

Boyle said Steve Barclay, the health secretary, fully supported the RCEM’s call for greater transparency around A&E data.

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