Thursday, March 7, 2024

Big Increase in patient numbers makes case for new wing at King George

 This is from page 237 of BHRUT board papers today

"The number of patients seeking urgent and emergency care at BHRUT increased by 9% in January when compared to January 2023. More than 5,800 extra patients were seen, treated, discharged or admitted within 4 hours this January compared to January 2023. All types performance was 74.1% for January 2024 which puts us in the national upper quartile. There were 12,767 type 1 attendances in January. Type 1 performance was 50.7%. Queens Type 1 performance was 50.1% which is a 11.4% improvement within 10 months, King George achieved 51.7% - a 24.1% improvement within 9 months. Type 2 activity is in Gynaecology and Eye Clinic, Gynaecology performance decreased to 79.1% (85.4% in December). Eye Clinic performance was 83.2% (83.5% in December). Type 3 activity increased to 13,676 attendances in January and performance improved 95.3% (95.1% in December)."

Substantial new developments are planned in East London, without new in-patient beds and more GPs the East London NHS performance seems set to decline. 

Maternity also needs to come back to King George.