Leeds Teaching Hospitals said its A&E handover times had increased after changes to the way the data is recorded. NHS guidelines say all patients should be transferred into A&E within 15 minutes of arriving at hospital. Latest figures for February show the average handover time at St James’s University Hospital was 22.36 minutes. There were 1,976 handovers of more than 15 minutes at the hospital, some 70.7 per cent of total ambulance arrivals. At Leeds General Infirmary , 46.
Clare Smith, the trust’s chief operating officer, said: “Prompt ambulance handovers is really important for good patient care and to ensure ambulance availability for other people who need them. “We work hard to ensure handovers happen in a timely manner, and this is reflected in our large, busy departments ranking very well and one of the highest nationally against this measure.
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