Try our NHS tracker to see how long delays are at your local hospital

16 January 2023 , 16:08

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This is a challenging winter for our NHS. (Image: Getty Images)

How is YOUR local NHS trust coping with the current winter crisis?

With spiralling flu cases and a seasonal Covid surge continuing to pile the pressure on our health service, it can be handy to know how long you might have to wait in A&E - and how quickly an ambulance could get to you.

And that's where our NHS tracker comes in.

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NHS trusts across England are failing to meet their targets on a number of key factors.

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All ambulance services failed to meet their category one and two response time targets in December. The month also saw 75 per cent of trusts not meeting their A&E waiting time goals.

And a total of 155 out of 168 trusts in England failed to meet their waiting list targets in November.

How to use our NHS tracker

Our handy widget below will let you know how long delays are at your local A&E as well as ambulance response times - just simply pop your postcode into the box and then pick your local trust.

Tough times

Ambulance response times for category one calls - for the most life-threatening injuries - took an average of 10 minutes 57 seconds in England in December.

The target is seven minutes.

Category two calls - which include things like strokes - have a target response time of 18 minutes.

The average was 1 hour 32 minutes.

South Western Ambulance Service had the worst record, with Cat1 calls having an average response time of 13 minutes 11 seconds, and Cat2 two hours 39 minutes.

Only 65 per cent of attendances at A&Es in England were fewer than four hours from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge. That’s a new record low.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust had the worst record of any trust in England. Just 39.6 per cent of attendances were sorted within four hours.

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Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has the next worst record at 42.6 per cent, followed by Wye Valley NHS Trust (44.3 per cent), and The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS Trust (44.7 per cent).

Paul Speed