, Labour’s Shadow Health and Social Care
Secretary, commenting on NHS performance
statistics published today, said:
“These figures show the alarming and sustained pressure the
NHS has been under for months now - impacting all areas of
treatment. Hospitals are struggling to deliver urgent care in the
most difficult of circumstances, while over 190,000 people have
now been waiting over a year for treatment.
"Years of underfunding, bed cuts and understaffing left our
NHS exposed when the Coronavirus epidemic hit us.
"It is vital that we now have a Herculean effort to roll
out at least two million vaccines a week, with NHS staff
vaccinations completed in the next week, to ease pressure on our
NHS.”
Ends
Notes to editors:
NHS Performance
· The number of RTT patients waiting to start
treatment at the end of November 2020 was 4.46 million patients.
Of those, 192,169 patients were waiting more than 52
weeks.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/Nov20-RTT-SPN-publication-v0.pdf
· 80.3% of patients were seen within 4 hours
in A&E in December - the second worst on record.
· 3,745 people spent more than 12 hours from
decision to admit to admission after attending A&E - trolley
waits - in December - the highest on record and a jump of 1600 on
November 2020.
· 89,807 people spent more than 4 hours from
decision to admit to admission following their attendance at
A&E.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ae-attendances-and-emergency-admissions-2020-21/
Latest SitRep
· In the latest week (to 10 Jan) there were 25
A&E diverts in place
· There have been 155 A&E diverts since 30
November
· 5,513 ambulances were delayed more than 60
minutes in the latest week.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/uec-sitrep/urgent-and-emergency-care-daily-situation-reports-2020-21/
