Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 1296
- Request Date
- 15 Oct 2021
- Information Requested
For the month of August and September through to Sunday September 19 please provide
- The number of occasions on which crews were told the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital" was not receiving due to capacity issues (for any of the possible patient categories)?
- The dates in August and Sept up until Sept 19 when crews were told the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital" was not receiving due to capacity issues (for any of the possible patient categories)?
- If possible, a list of all the occasions during August and Sept up to sept19 when ambulances were told the QEUH was not receiving detailing how long the instruction was in place on each occasion and the categories of patient affected.
- Response
Please see the table showing the number of times recorded within our Ambulance Control Centres when the Scottish Ambulance Service was informed by the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital of the following diverts agreed.
Please note caution on the interpretation of this information. This is not representative of any “Time Critical” patients taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) during the time of a divert being in place. At any point during a divert in place the (QUEH) will always accept time critical patients requiring immediate hospital admission.
Date
Time
Hospital diverting to
Length of divert
Type of patient being diverted
04/08/2021
03:44
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
N/A
999 divert <5 patients diverted
10/08/2021
14:35
Royal Alexandra Hospital
120 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
12/08/2021
00:20
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
N/A
999 divert <5 patients diverted
12/08/2021
01:40
Royal Alexandra Hospital
N/A
999 divert <5 patients diverted
12/08/2021
15:50
Royal Alexandra Hospital
70 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
12/08/2021
23:00
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
N/A
999 divert <5 patients diverted
13/08/2021
13:02
Royal Alexandra Hospital
120 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
22/08/2021
18:47
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
60 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
22/08/2021
22:00
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
60 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
24/08/2021
00:40
Royal Alexandra Hospital
60 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
24/08/2021
02:40
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
60 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
31/08/2021
00:10
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
60 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
07/09/2021
21:46
Royal Alexandra Hospital
60 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
07/09/2021
23:00
Royal Alexandra Hospital
60 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
08/09/2021
00:31
Royal Alexandra Hospital
180 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
08/09/2021
04:33
Royal Alexandra Hospital
60 minutes
999 patients 0 patients diverted
12/09/2021
18:17
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
N/A
999 divert <5 patients diverted
For the given data, you will see that some of the figures are shown as, five or less than five, please note that this figure has been suppressed because the statistical value is less than five.
The Scottish Ambulance service has a duty, under the Data Protection Act to avoid directly or indirectly revealing any personal details. It is therefore widely understood that provision of statistics on small numbers, five or less are statistically suppressed upon disclosure.
- Response Documents
