GP provision and Maelor’s A&E Department up for debate as councillors and health board meet
Senior members of the local health board will be grilled by councillors tomorrow on GP provision in Wrexham, infection rates and the performance of the Wrexham Maelor Emergency Department.
Members of the Safeguarding Communities & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee will meet with representatives of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board to debate a number of issues facing Wrexham, and hopefully recognise where progress has been made.
During the meeting Health Board representatives will provide an update on the remodelling of primary care services and the special measures programme.
One of the more topical issues facing Wrexham at the moment will also be discussed, with representatives set to discuss GP recruitment (including early warning indicators for GP practices, how risks are being managed and a map of surgeries in Wrexham highlighting vacancies).
A series of questions on topics including infection rates at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital, GP out of Hours Services and the performance of Wrexham Maelor’s Emergency Department, will also be discussed by councillors.
Pre-submitted questions have also asked about if there is a discharge policy for patients who are identified as being either homeless or substance misusers, and how the Maelor Hospital works with its health teams and other agencies to ensure that patients’ health is supported after discharge.
In documents before the meeting, that details some questions being posed, there is some graphical representations of related A&E data.
The top image of this article shows a map from tomorrow’s report, detailing the apparent geographical source of patients who left prior to treatment.
In April 841 people left prior to treatment, May seeing 864, June 780, July the highest in the data set at 875 people, with August dropping to 652 and September 670 people.
Below shows data, again April through September, splitting attendees into triage category.
The meeting is also due to be webcast live on the Wrexham Council website – so those who can’t attend can tune in from 10:30am to watch the action – and perhaps listen depending on the quality of the audio.
Wrexham.com has created a twitter ‘wait bot’ that scrapes the public data on wait times outputting it to the below twitter account.
This data was capped at four hours shortly after we created the wait bot app and started tweeting about it’s existence. As we wrote at the time the data used to give uncapped information, however the NHS denied this was ever the case, but then later clarified an ‘adjustment’ had taken place.
The bot can be found @WrexMaelorBot with the latest output below:
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