General Hospital waiting times (FOI)General Hospital waiting times (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by States of Jersey and published on
10 November 2017.Request
Please can you release details of the waiting times for the hospital.
If possible please can you break down the information in the following way:
Isle of Man waiting times
Please note the further breakdowns:
Isle of Man Outpatients waiting times
and
Isle of Man inpatients waiting times
Response
We are unable to present information in the same format for cancer waiting times due to limitations with our current patient administration system.
Ambulance response times - January 2017 to September 2017
Category A calls are the most serious calls.
Ambulance response times - Category A calls
| % of category A calls attended within 8 minutes | 69% |
Emergency Department (ED) waiting time - January 2017 to September 2017
The table below displays the percentage of ED attendances that were discharged or admitted within four hours.
Emergency Department waiting times
| % of attendances discharged or admitted within 4 hours | 85% |
Outpatient waiting times - September 2017
The table below shows the waiting times for new appointments for patients waiting in specialties listed in the ‘outpatients currently waiting’ table below.
Outpatient appointments
| % of patients seen for a new appointment within 52 weeks | 98% |
| % of patients waiting longer than 90 days | 32% |
Inpatient waiting times - September 2017
The table below shows the waiting times for an inpatient procedure for patients waiting in specialties listed in the ‘inpatients currently waiting’ table below.
Inpatient procedures
| % of patients admitted within 52 weeks | 100% |
| % of patients waiting longer than 90 days | 20% |
Outpatients currently waiting - September 2017
We are unable to provide the breakdown of numbers waiting as due to small numbers in some cases there is a risk of identifying an individual patient. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is therefore applied.
However the distribution of patients waiting for an inpatient or daycase procedure by specialty as at the end of September 2017 is shown in the table below:
1 Surgery OP | 0-30 | 31-60 | 61-90 | 91-120 | 121-180 | >180 | %>90 |
| Breast surgery | 89% | 7% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 3% |
| ENT | 25% | 16% | 17% | 17% | 22% | 2% | 42% |
| General surgery | 38% | 26% | 23% | 6% | 5% | 3% | 13% |
| Gynaecology | 48% | 26% | 10% | 7% | 7% | 2% | 16% |
| Ophthalmology | 29% | 27% | 23% | 11% | 11% | 1% | 22% |
| Oral surgery | 47% | 23% | 17% | 12% | 2% | 0% | 14% |
| Orthodontics | 8% | 11% | 7% | 4% | 11% | 59% | 75% |
| Paediatric trauma and Orthopaedics | 41% | 27% | 3% | 5% | 5% | 19% | 29% |
| Paediatric urology | 18% | 53% | 18% | 0% | 12% | 0% | 12% |
| Pain management | 38% | 29% | 19% | 8% | 4% | 3% | 14% |
| Trauma and orthopaedics | 30% | 24% | 20% | 8% | 6% | 12% | 26% |
| Urology | 48% | 30% | 19% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 3% |
Totals | 33% | 23% | 17% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 27% |
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2 Medicine OP | 0-30 | 31-60 | 61-90 | 91-120 | 121-180 | >180 | %>90 |
| Cardiology | 56% | 20% | 10% | 7% | 3% | 4% | 14% |
| Dermatology | 21% | 15% | 13% | 14% | 25% | 12% | 51% |
| Diabetic medicine | 22% | 14% | 10% | 14% | 20% | 21% | 55% |
| Endocrinology | 41% | 32% | 14% | 0% | 3% | 11% | 14% |
| Gastroenterology | 50% | 20% | 6% | 9% | 4% | 11% | 24% |
| General medicine | 28% | 17% | 6% | 3% | 3% | 44% | 49% |
| Nephrology | 54% | 15% | 27% | 0% | 4% | 0% | 4% |
| Neurology | 25% | 19% | 14% | 11% | 22% | 9% | 42% |
| Respiratory medicine | 30% | 18% | 13% | 12% | 18% | 8% | 39% |
| Rheumatology | 80% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 20% |
Totals | 29% | 17% | 11% | 11% | 17% | 15% | 43% |
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Other | 0-30 | 31-60 | 61-90 | 91-120 | 121-180 | >180 | %>90 |
| Obstetrics | 79% | 18% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Paediatrics | 41% | 24% | 11% | 6% | 5% | 13% | 24% |
Totals | 51% | 22% | 8% | 4% | 4% | 10% | 18% |
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Inpatients currently waiting - September 2017
We are unable to provide the breakdown of numbers waiting as due to small numbers in some cases there is a risk of identifying an individual patient. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is therefore applied.
However the distribution of patients waiting for an inpatient or daycase procedure by specialty as at the end of September 2017 is shown in the table below:
Speciality | 0-30 | 31-60 | 61-90 | 91-120 | 121-180 | >180 | %>90 |
| Cardiology | 54% | 31% | 15% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| ENT | 47% | 28% | 18% | 6% | 1% | 0% | 7% |
| Gastroenterology | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100%* | 0% | 100% |
| General surgery | 41% | 22% | 20% | 12% | 5% | 1% | 17% |
| Gynaecology | 23% | 40% | 21% | 9% | 8% | 0% | 17% |
| Ophthalmology | 21% | 19% | 19% | 16% | 20% | 4% | 41% |
| Oral surgery | 47% | 34% | 19% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Pain management | 51% | 37% | 8% | 2% | 2% | 0% | 4% |
| Trauma and orthopaedics | 22% | 33% | 29% | 9% | 6% | 1% | 16% |
| Urology | 53% | 41% | 3% | 0% | 3% | 0% | 3% |
| Totals | 31% | 29% | 21% | 10% | 8% | 1% | 20% |
*These were data quality errors reported in September that have subsequently been amended and removed.
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