PHS FOI 2024-001952
- Date of request
- 18 September 2024
- Date of response
- 08 October 2024
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2024-001952
- Hospital care
- Waiting times
Request
“1 Do Public Health Scotland receive A&E patient triage data from health boards in addition to the information that is compiled and published every week and every month? As in, do PHS know how many patients each week were triaged into each tier of the Manchester triage system in A&E by health boards across Scotland, and how long each tier of patient had to wait on average?”
“2 Assuming the answer to 1 is ‘yes’, please provide the following, by week, from January 2023 to present, for A&E in Scotland:
- Number of patients triaged into each category
- Percentage of patients seen and transferred, discharged, or admitted within the target time for each triage category
- Percentage of patients seen and admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours for each triage category
- Mean and Median average time waited to be seen and admitted, transferred, or discharged for each triage category”