Although the performance of the Trust remains strong against national waiting times, we know that our emergency care and acute medicine services are not meeting a number of important clinical standards and we will need to make changes in order to improve quality of care even further. It is our ambition to:

  • Provide better access to 24/7 consultant led care, seven days a week
  • Consistently ensure all emergency admissions are seen by the right specialist in a timely way when they arrive at hospital, during their stay and when they are being discharged
  • Provide better access to multi-disciplinary services for emergency patients, seven days a week
  • Ensure our specialist consultants do not have conflicting priorities between emergency and planned care
  • Improve the differences which currently exist in the length of hospital stay between both sites for elderly and emergency heart patients
  • Improve the experience for emergency patients with cancer and ensure their care is joined up and better coordinated with local oncology (cancer) services
  • Improve the capacity across the whole health and care system to better meet the needs of emergency patients
  • Improve the differences which currently exist in how quickly diagnostic tests take place and how quickly results are interpreted by the right specialist
  • Create time and space for our staff to carry out continuous quality improvement and work better with GPs to develop alternatives to admission
  • Reduce the cost of temporary locum and agency staff
Return to Phase Two (Pre-COVID)