impact on patients. the bbc has analysed nhs england data on average waiting times in emergency departments over december and january. among the best performing were nhs trusts in northumbria, maidstone and tunbridge wells and blackpool. but patients in hull, wye valley and shrewsbury and telford face the longest waits. and in all the ten worst performing trusts, patients were five times more likely to face a long wait of over four hours than in the best performing hospital. so what explains the difference between the best and the worst? one hospital boss says it s staff, teamwork and investment. we ve got the greatest staff truly dedicated, passionate about the best care possible in extremely difficult and quite challenging circumstances. equally, we ve really worked hard on collaboration and working with our partners across lancashire and south cumbria. lastly, we ve had fantastic investment into the local system,
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try to find two nurses who were underneath. we re still waiting to hear more information. there are people who are waiting here, families of those nurses waiting desperately for news. the fact it is now over a week on means many incredibly worried. hope is dwindling here. as well, this hospital is now completely, obviously it is impossible to use the building. instead the entire emergency operation is now taking place over here in makeshift tents. some of the rescuers have told us that rescue workers have come from across turkey as well as internationally. ambulances have been sent from across turkey to try to make up for what has been damaged in what has been asked. a state of emergency has been delcared in new zealand after the country was hit by cyclone gabrielle.
trusts that provided data, more than half of patients waited longer than four hours. but at the best performing units fewer than one in ten did. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has more. it s been the toughest winter for the nhs in a generation. across the uk, there have been record waiting times for ambulances and in a&e departments. and that s had a real impact on patients. the bbc has analysed nhs england data on average waiting times in emergency departments over december and january. among the best performing were nhs trusts in northumbria, maidstone and tunbridge wells and blackpool. but patients in hull, wye valley and shrewsbury and telford face the longest waits. and in all the ten worst performing trusts, patients were five times more likely to face a long wait of over four hours than in the best performing hospital. so what explains the difference between the best and the worst? 0ne hospital boss says its staff, teamwork and investment.
we ve got the greatest staff truly dedicated, passionate about the best care possible in extremely difficult and quite challenging circumstances. equally, we really worked hard on collaboration and working with our partners across lancashire and south cumbria. lastly, we ve had fantastic investment into the local system, whereby we ve been able to invest in state of the art facilities, such as the same day emergency care. nhs england acknowledges the winter has been tough but says ambulance but it also said that work continues on improving the speed with which patients can be discharged from hospital when they re well enough to leave. dominic hughes, bbc news. this story will make you smile this