Time to initial treatment

Data Description

The Time to Treatment indicator looks at all attendances to the Emergency Department and measures the time between when the patient first arrived and the time they were seen by a clinician who can diagnose the problem and arrange or start treatment, known as the decision-making clinician. The target for Time to Treatment is that 50% of attendances to the Emergency Department should see the decision-making clinician within 60 minutes of arrival. This indicator is intended to reduce the clinical risk associated with the time that a patient spends in the A&E department before beginning their treatment.

Narrative

The target of 60 minutes has been achieved in November. Historically this has been a difficult target to achieve, so we are pleased with the improvement.