21 July 2015
All health boards in Scotland are expected to achieve at least 95% of Accident & Emergency (A&E) patients being treated within four hours. This is measured from when you arrive in A&E up until the point you are either admitted into hospital, discharged home or transferred to another healthcare location.
Figures published by the Scottish Government today report that for the week ending 12.07.15, there was a total of 478 A&E attendances at the BGH. In six cases patients waited longer than four hours to be admitted or discharged. The longest time a patient waited was six hours and twenty three minutes. This means that our performance against the four hour standard was 98.7%.
This compares with the national figure of 95.4% for the same week.
Director of Nursing and Midwifery and Interim Director of Acute Services Evelyn Rodger said: "It is encouraging that we have consistently been able to treat the vast majority of patients who present at our Emergency Department within four hours.
"In order to help us ensure that we can continue to provide the best care for patients requiring emergency treatment, we would like to remind people who feel that they need medical advice or treatment to carefully consider which service is best for their illness or injury, as going to the Emergency Department may not be the right course of action."