Blackpool Victoria Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for patients transferred from the Accident and Emergency department at Blackpool Victoria Hospital to a Medical Assessment Unit before receiving a clinical decision in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Karin Smyth
NHS England does not collect or publish data on the average waiting time for patients transferred from accident and emergency departments to a Medical Assessment Unit before receiving a clinical decision, including at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
Operational management of patient flow within hospitals, including transfers between departments and assessment units, is the responsibility of local National Health Service organisations.
NHS England publishes data on the number of patients who spend more than 12 hours in accident and emergency departments from arrival to admission, transfer, or discharge by system and at provider organisation level. This is available at the following link:
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