Over half of A & E patients at Hull hospitals waited over 4 hours to be seen
That's the highest proportion in England according to NHS figures
More than half of A&E patients were waiting more than four hours to be seen in Hull hospitals last month, the highest proportion in England according to NHS figures.
NHS England figures showed 5,365 patients who visited A&E at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital waited more than four hours in June, out of 10,460.
Figures also showed 427 patients waited more than 12 hours between a decision to admit them and them being admitted to hospitals.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust (HUTH), which runs Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, has been contacted for comment.
The 51.3 per cent of A&E patients waiting longer than four hours to be seen compares to an average of 27.9 per cent across England’s NHS trusts.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust were second and third respectively for patients waiting four hours or more.
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and Torbay and South Devon NHS Found Trust came fourth and fifth respectively.
Figures for trusts across England showed there were 500,000 emergency admissions in June, down 6.6 per cent year-on-year.
But the number o attendances admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours was more than 1.4m, 10 per cent less than in June 2021.
The 72.1 per cent of patients seen within four hours across England was down from 73 per cent in May, 81.3 per cent in June 2021 and 96.4 per cent in June 2019.
The last time the 95 per cent standard was met was in June 2015.
There were 130,109 four-hour delays from decision to admit to admission in emergencies last month, almost double then 66,600 in June 2021.
The number of delays of more than four hours in Hull hospitals totalled 1,353.
A total of 22,034 patients in England faced delays of more than 12 hours.
An NHS England commentary on the figures said that figure was the highest since records began.
The commentary added none of the 109 reporting trusts with type one departments, those providing 24-hour services with full facilities, achieved the 95 per cent standard.