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<p>The NHS Improvement Emergency Care Intensive Support Team is currently working
to provide specialist support to systems across the North West region. Six trusts<sup>1
</sup>with challenged Emergency Departments routinely reporting ambulance-hospital
handover delays are engaging with North West Ambulance Service as part of an initial
90-day improvement programme, which has now been extended further. In addition, eight
trusts<sup>2 </sup>have received Urgent and Emergency Care capital investment this
winter to make improvements to accident and emergency.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s
‘Operational and Planning Guidance for 2019/20’ sets out deliverables against key
performance areas and the Government expects the National Health Service to deliver
these actions in full as key steps towards fully recovering performance against core
access standards.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup>Blackpool
Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, East Lancashire Hospital NHS Trust, Lancashire
Teaching Hospitals Trust, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wirral
University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh
NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p><sup>2</sup>Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital
NHS Trust, Wirral University Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
Trust, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, and
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
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