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MPs question Ministers on waiting times and finance
27 June 2007

West Sussex MP Tim Loughton has received answers to the following ministerial questions on hospitals in Sussex:

Accident and Emergency Departments: Sussex

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the most recent waiting time levels were in accident and emergency departments in all Sussex hospitals. [145833]

Andy Burnham: The Department does not collect accident and emergency (A&E) waiting time data at individual hospital level. Information is available at trust level. The following table provides the percentage of patients spending under four hours between arrival in A&E and admission, transfer or discharge for the latest period for which data has been published.

Percentage of patients spending under four hours between arrival in A&E and admission, transfer or discharge, quarter 4 (January to March) 2007
Organisation    Percentage of patients 
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust     98.2   
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust     97.6   
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust      94.3   
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust 97.6   
Source: Department of Health dataset QMAE.     
 

25 June 2007

Hospitals: Finance

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the projected financial position is of (a) Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, (b) Worthing and Southlands Hospital, (c) Princess Royal, Haywards Heath and (d) St. Richards Hospital, Chichester for the end of the financial year 2007-08; and what the financial position of each was at the end of the last financial year. [145845]

Caroline Flint: The information requested is collected by national health service trusts, and not by hospitals.

The quarter 4, 2006-07 provisional outturn surplus/(deficit) and 2007-08 provisional plan year end forecast outturn surplus/(deficit) for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Royal West Sussex NHS Trust and the Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust are shown in the table.

£ million      
NHS Trust       2006- 0 7 quarter 4 provisional outturn surplus/(deficit)       2007-08 provisional plan year end forecast outturn surplus/(deficit) data      
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS trust      (5.3)   (4.5)  
Worthing and Southlands hospitals NHS trust     (6)     0      
The Royal West Sussex NHS trust 1.5     0.67   
Source:
Quarter 4 2006-07 Department of Health financial monitoring returns
Financial plans for 2007-08 are subject to final validation and sign-off with the NHS. 

 

25 June 2007