- In Type 1 emergency care departments, the percentage of patients attending that were either treated and discharged home or admitted within 4 hours decreased by 5.3 percentage points, from 71.6% to 66.3% ).
- In Type 2 emergency care departments, the percentage of patients attending that were either treated and discharged home or admitted within 4 hours decreased by 4.6 percentage points, from 87.5% to 82.9% .
- In Type 3 emergency care departments, the percentage of patients attending that were either treated and discharged home or admitted within 4 hours remained at 100.0%.
- The number of patients that waited longer than 12 hours to be either treated and discharged home, or admitted, increased slightly (34, 3.4%) from 987 to 1,021. In particular, performance declined notably at the Ulster between January and March, from 223 to 397.
During March 2013, performance against the 4 hour component of the Ministerial target for emergency care waiting times in Type 1 departments ranged from 58.3% in the Royal Victoria to 85.7% in the South West Acute.
Performance against the 12 hour component of the Ministerial target for Type 1 departments ranged from 0 in the South West Acute and RBHSC to 397 in the Ulster during March 2013.
There were a total of 47,300 attendances at Type 1 emergency care departments during March 2013, ranging from 2,551 in South West Acute to 7,787 in the Royal Victoria .
Focusing On Antrim Area Hospital
Fewer patients are Attending Antrim A&E yet performance is not improving
Patients waiting 4-12 hours have increase by 4,386 from the previous year, while fewer may be waiting over 12 hours it is still very apparent that Antrim Area A&E is not coping with its work load.