Causeway Hospital emergency care pressures remain 'serious concern', says MLA Sugden

Causeway Hospital emergency care pressures remain 'serious concern', says MLA Sugden

Despite a small reduction in ambulance handover delays at Coleraine’s Causeway Hospital, a local MLA has warned that emergency care pressures remain a ‘serious concern’.

Northern Trust records Improvement in ambulance handovers despite ongoing pressures in emergency departments

Ambulance handover times have shown “some improvement” across the Northern Health and Social Care Trust, board members have been told. Presenting a performance report for May at a meeting at Antrim Hospital last week, Neill Martin, Divisional Director of Strategic Planning, Performance and ICT, said that 11.8 per cent of patients arriving by ambulance were handed over to medical staff within 15 minutes at Antrim Area Hospital, compared with 8.6 …