Turnaround times
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- 1695/22
- Request Date
- 18 Oct 2022
- Response Date
- 07 Nov 2022
- Information Requested
Under the FOI (Scotland) Act 2002 please provide turnaround times for i) Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy ii) Perth Royal Infirmary iii) overall national figures for a) the full calendar year in 2021 b) calendar year in 2022 up to September 30th.
- Response
Please see the data below showing the turnaround times for emergency conveyances to Perth Royal Infirmary and Kirkcaldy’s Victoria Hospital for the period 01/01/2021 – 30/09/2022. Please note that air ambulance/helicopter transfers have been excluded.
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.
The Scottish Ambulance service is publishing a weekly update of key statistics on unscheduled care operational measures across Scotland. The information includes trends in the number of unscheduled care incidents, responses, conveyances to hospital, response times and hospital turnaround times.
These can be found on our website Unscheduled Care Operational Statistics (scottishambulance.com)Hospital Turnaround Times, Emergency Incidents, 01/01/2021-30/09/2022
2021
2022
Perth Royal Infirmary (Perth)
Resources Conveyed
3,983
2,802
Median Turnaround Time
23:10
24:59
Turnarounds >20 Minutes
2,566
1,979
Turnarounds >30 Minutes
1,012
878
Turnarounds >1 Hour
39
36
Turnarounds >2 Hours
8
Turnarounds >3 Hours
<5
Turnarounds >4 Hours
Turnarounds >5 Hours
1st Longest Turnaround Time
196:54
117:15
2nd Longest Turnaround Time
167:54
99:35
3rd Longest Turnaround Time
159:45
96:26
4th Longest Turnaround Time
150:57
88:26
5th Longest Turnaround Time
144:42
83:30
6th Longest Turnaround Time
133:08
81:51
7th Longest Turnaround Time
123:26
79:18
8th Longest Turnaruond Time
123:04
78:22
9th Longest Turnaround Time
119:27
75:57
10th Longest Turnaround Time
105:45
75:11
Victoria Hospital (Kirkcaldy)
Resources Conveyed
22,511
16,580
Median Turnaround Time
33:15
43:36
Turnarounds >20 Minutes
19,222
15,278
Turnarounds >30 Minutes
13,297
12,496
Turnarounds >1 Hour
2,434
4,913
Turnarounds >2 Hours
448
1,685
Turnarounds >3 Hours
136
657
Turnarounds >4 Hours
37
205
Turnarounds >5 Hours
13
50
1st Longest Turnaround Time
413:19
637:29
2nd Longest Turnaround Time
376:44
637:00
3rd Longest Turnaround Time
376:23
588:15
4th Longest Turnaround Time
349:51
510:00
5th Longest Turnaround Time
333:50
447:10
6th Longest Turnaround Time
333:03
415:36
7th Longest Turnaround Time
317:16
390:41
8th Longest Turnaruond Time
310:00
373:16
9th Longest Turnaround Time
309:23
368:46
10th Longest Turnaround Time
305:24
367:29
2021
2022
National
Resources Conveyed
372,194
272,758
Median Turnaround Time
35:51
41:18
Turnarounds >20 Minutes
323,089
243,975
Turnarounds >30 Minutes
239,388
197,170
Turnarounds >1 Hour
50,815
65,449
Turnarounds >2 Hours
7,366
16,232
Turnarounds >3 Hours
2,013
6,318
Turnarounds >4 Hours
584
2,290
Turnarounds >5 Hours
170
819
1st Longest Turnaround Time
705:00
799:00
2nd Longest Turnaround Time
546:00
744:00
3rd Longest Turnaround Time
534:50
728:00
4th Longest Turnaround Time
490:19
721:54
5th Longest Turnaround Time
463:22
703:00
6th Longest Turnaround Time
462:08
691:00
7th Longest Turnaround Time
443:56
630:00
8th Longest Turnaruond Time
432:40
578:00
9th Longest Turnaround Time
420:09
575:44
10th Longest Turnaround Time
415:54
546:07
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