救急車 handover 延期するs outside England´s hospitals lower than last winter
救急車 handover 延期するs outside hospitals in England are now lower than at this point last year, in the 最新の 調印する winter 圧力s on the health service may have 緩和するd.
Flu 患者 levels are also continuing to 落ちる, though the number of medically fit 患者s unable to leave hospital beds remains の近くに to an 史上最高.
Health 長，指導者s said the 人物／姿／数字s were a “much-needed 微光 of light”, but 警告するd NHS 労働者s remain under “重要な” 緊張する.
Some 18% of 救急車 患者s in England waited at least 30 minutes last week to be 手渡すd to A&E teams, NHS data shows.
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The 人物／姿／数字 has fallen four weeks in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 since hitting a 記録，記録的な／記録する 44% in the seven days to January 1.
延期するs are now lower than in the 同等（の） week last winter, when the 割合 stood at 20%.
Some 6% of 患者s waited more than an hour last week to be 手渡すd over to A&E teams, compared with 8% at this point in 2022.
The number of flu 患者s has also dropped for four 連続した weeks and is now 負かす／撃墜する more than three-４半期/4分の1s (76%) from the start of the year.
An 普通の／平均（する） of 1,291 people were in hospital with flu each day last week, a 減少（する） from 2,034 the previous week and the lowest since 早期に December.
At this point last winter the 普通の／平均（する） was just 36.
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The 率 of flu admissions to hospital stood at 1.4 per 100,000 people last week, 負かす／撃墜する from 1.5 the previous week and the lowest since the beginning of November.
The sharp 減少（する） in flu levels comes after a 殺到する in 事例／患者s in the run-up to Christmas, which health 専門家s 述べるd as the worst flu season for a １０年間.
But にもかかわらず these 肯定的な 傾向s, hospitals are still struggling to 発射する／解雇する people who no longer need to be there.
An 普通の／平均（する） of 13,983 beds last week were taken up by 患者s who were fit to leave, の近くに to the 記録，記録的な／記録する 14,069 in the week to January 8.
At this point last year, the number stood at 12,257.
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Saffron Cordery, 副 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある at NHS Providers, the 会員の地位 organisation for NHS 信用s in England, said the 減少（する） in handover 延期するs was a “much-needed 微光 of light”, but 警告するd the health service was “not out of the 支持を得ようと努めるd yet.”
She continued: “Last week, nearly 14,000 患者s who were medically fit to leave hospital couldn’t, 予定 to a need to 投資する in capacity in social care, rehabilitation and community services.
“To relieve 圧力 on the whole system ? 救急車s, hospital A&Es, mental health and community services ? we need to 取り組む 全労働人口 不足s, staff exhaustion and burnout, and the worrying 欠如（する） of capacity.”
A total of 41% of 患者s ready to leave hospital last week were 現実に 発射する／解雇するd, though there were wide variations across the 地域s, with 49% 発射する／解雇するd in eastern England and only 30% in north-west England.
Some NHS 信用s are continuing to 発射する／解雇する as few as one in 10 medically fit 患者s, with levels as low as 7% at Liverpool University Hospitals, 8% at Stockport NHS 創立／基礎 信用, and 9% at both Warrington & Halton Teaching Hospitals and the Northern Care 同盟 in Greater Manchester.
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Dr Layla McCay, director of 政策 at the NHS 連合 which 代表するs the whole healthcare system in England, said: “Ahead of the worst week of 産業の 活動／戦闘 to 攻撃する，衝突する the NHS, health leaders are worried that the service is under very high 圧力.
“にもかかわらず the 政府 投資, nearly 14,000 medically fit 患者s are still in beds they do not need to be in and this is not helped by the 基金ing to help 発射する／解雇する them coming far too late in the day to make a meaningful difference.
“追加する the prospect of その上の waves of 産業の 活動／戦闘 that will only 増加する in severity of disruption unless the 政府 shows 乗り気 to 交渉する with the unions, and the 恐れる is that the NHS will forever be in this grim position where people coming into the health system are in need of care at a greater 率 than they are leaving it.”
A 一連の strikes by NHS 労働者s have been 発表するd for next week in an 現在進行中の 論争 over 支払う／賃金, with nurses in England and むちの跡s taking 産業の 活動／戦闘 on February 6 and 7, along with 救急車 労働者s at five services on February 6 and 10, midwives and physiotherapy staff in むちの跡s on February 7 and physiotherapy staff in England on February 9.
Professor Stephen Powis, NHS England 医療の director, said: “While there have been continued 改良s in 救急車 handovers and there are now より小数の flu 患者s in hospital compared with the 頂点（に達する） last month, today’s 人物／姿／数字s show that NHS staff remain under 重要な 圧力.
“Last week saw more people 存在 taken to A&E by 救急車 than the week before, bed occupancy is still constrained and the number of people remaining in hospital who no longer need to be there has 増加するd to almost 14,000, while illnesses like flu and norovirus remain a real 関心.
“NHS staff are working incredibly hard to continue to 供給する the best care for our 患者s in the 直面する of continued 需要・要求する, and we are incredibly 感謝する for their 成果／努力s over this winter, which we know has been 特に challenging.”
Norovirus 事例／患者s in England have 増加するd わずかに, with an 普通の／平均（する） of 393 adult hospital beds 占領するd last week by 患者s with diarrhoea and vomiting or norovirus-like symptoms, up week-on-week from 371.
The 同等（の） number at this point last year was 316.
