Royal Berks Hospital best cardiac treatment times in country for third year

It is the third year in a row that the hospital has achieved the highest figure for the number of cardiac patients receiving treatment at the hospital within the Government target of 120-minutes of them calling the emergency services.
The data, compiled by the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP), shows that 94.2 per cent of its cardiac patients between April 2013 and March 2014 received primary angioplasty treatment within the target time.
The news comes three months after the RBH’s cardiac team was presented with the Pride of Reading Award for providing high quality and rapid care after being the nation's best performing hospital for two years in a row.
In the latest results, the Royal Berkshire Hospital was by far the best performing unit in England and Wales, with the national average showing that 58.9 per cent of patients received the necessary treatment within two hours.
The next best figure was 82.4 per cent for patients at Dorset County Hospital, Dorcester.
The lowest performing of the 75 hospitals included in the report was the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, at which 38.5 per cent of cardiac patients received treatment within 120-minutes of calling an ambulance.
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital treated 80.6 per cent of patients within the target time, 76.2 per cent at Great Western Hospital, Swindon, and 63.6 at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
The Royal Berkshire Hospital and Basingstoke hospital are the only two hospitals local to West Berkshire that have improved their figures since the 2012/13 financial year, from 90.2 per cent and 76.7 per cent respectively.
Swindon’s Great Western Hospital’s figure reduced from 93 per cent and the John Radcliffe Hospital from 66.1 per cent.
The MINAP report compiles data to show the performance of hospitals in relation to cardiac unit performance.