More patients treated more quickly

29 May 2012

Chelsea and Westminster has been singled out by the Department of Health as one of just 59 NHS trusts nationally, and one of only a handful in London, that have no patients on a waiting list for longer than 12 months.

Chelsea and Westminster has been singled out by the Department of Health as one of just 59 NHS trusts nationally, and one of only a handful in London, that have no patients on a waiting list for longer than 12 months.

The Trust also met a challenging national target to treat 95% of outpatients and 90% of inpatients within 18 weeks of GP referral in the 2011/12 financial year which ended on 31 March.

New statistics just published show that staff at Chelsea and Westminster achieved these excellent results for patients despite treating more patients than ever in 2011/12:

2011/12 2010/11 2009/10 2008/09
Inpatients 46,824 46,863 38,751 37,644
Outpatients* 186,035 176,303 160,327 148,941
Day cases 23,103 21,974 17,790 16,821
A&E + UCC** 107,419 108,010 100,905 97,640
Total 363,381 353,150 317,773 301,046

* Number of individual patients treated as outpatients not number of attendances in Outpatients (eg if an individual patient attended Outpatients on eight separate occasions, this is counted as one patient and not eight attendances)

** The Urgent Care Centre (UCC) is a ‘walk-in’ service, developed with GPs, for patients who come to A&E with minor illnesses and injuries that require attention but are not critical or life-threatening

In particular, there was increased demand for our specialist services:

  • 10% increase in demand for sexual health services in 2011/12 compared with 2010/11 at our three main centres - John Hunter Clinic for Sexual Health at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, West London Centre for Sexual Health at Charing Cross Hospital, and 56 Dean Street in Soho
  • 7,053 people living with HIV on our caseload in 2011/12, compared with 6,623 in 2010/11
  • 5,915 deliveries in Maternity in 2011/12, compared with 5,738 in 2010/11—these figures include both NHS and Private Maternity Unit deliveries
  • 80,299 children treated in 2011/12 as inpatients, outpatients, in Paediatric A&E or as day case patients, compared with 74,876 in 2010/11