AMU  

FOI REFERENCE: 23113   FOI DATE: 21^st May 2024    

Please state what percentage of your total discharges from the Acute Medical Unit are discharged home/to usual place of residence without support

Discharged to usual place of residence based on patients with a discharge destination code 19 (‘Usual Place of Residence’) and not discharged on a pathway.

	%
% of Total discharges	87.5%

For those patients, what was the average length of stay in the Acute Medical Unit?

	Hours
Average LOS (hours)	27

Please state what percentage of all admitted patients from A&E waited more than 12 hours from decision to admit to actual admission (12hr+ trolley waits)

	%
% Admitted >12 hours from DTA	9.8%

Please state what percentage of cancelled elective operations for non-clinical reasons were due to:

a.    unavailable ward beds

b.    unavailable surgeon

c.    unavailable anaesthetist

d.    unavailable theatre staff

Our reasons don’t go into enough detail to answer questions 4b-4d individually, so we have merged these questions to provide: What percentage of cancelled ops for non-clinical reasons were due to ‘Unavailable Staff’.

	%
a – Unavailable ward beds	12.1%
b – Unavailable surgeon	19.0%
c – Unavailable anaesthetist
d – Unavailable theatre staff