South Reading Patient Voice

The NHS England performance report for January 2016, appearing only on 10 March 2016, shows many targets missed with the worst performance for waiting in A&E since figures became available.

The January 2016 performance report for NHS England shows the following, among others:

• There was a 10.1% increase in A&E attendances over January 2015 (although the year to January shows only 0.6% increase over the previous year). The Royal Berkshire Hospital A&E department was exceptionally busy in early 2016 although the Reading Walk-In Centre showed no corresponding surge in attendance.
• Only 88.7% of patients in A&E could be treated, discharged or admitted in the four-hour target time, against the target of 95%.
• Emergency admissions to hospital were up 4.6% year on year.
• Only 69.9% of Red 1 ambulance callouts arrived within the target 8 minutes against the target of 75% - the eigth month of misses.
• 2.1% of patients waiting for diagnostic tests had been waiting for more than the six week target against a target of 1% last achieved in November 2013.
• Only 81% of patients waiting for first definitive treatment for cancer were treated within the 2 day target against a target of 85%.