Lack of Space - FOI Response Register

1. Can you provide me with your policy or procedure for when sections of A&E have to be used as an overflow ward?

No policy in place, A&E has never been used as an overflow ward.

2. Can you provide me with your policy or procedure for patient’s access to toilet and washing facilities when parts of A&E have to become a ward due to lack of bed space?

N/A as not used as overflow ward

3. Over the last 6 calendar years how many days did sections of A&E have to be used as an overflow ward?

0 Days

4. Over the last 6 calendar years how many days were patients in beds waiting in corridors to be admitted, transferred or discharged from A&E?

0 Days

5. Over the last 6 calendar years how many days were storage cupboards and waiting rooms used for bed space due to numbers exceeding capacity in A&E?

0 Days