WARRINGTON Hospital’s performance in key waiting time targets has been revealed.

The hospital’s waiting times for A&E treatment, cancer care and planned operations have been revealed by the BBC’s new Health Tracker.

A&E departments are expected to treat and discharge or admit patients within four hours in 95 per cent of cases.

Figures for September revealed that Warrington Hospital did so in 90.9 per cent of cases, compared to a national average of 89.7 per cent.

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was ranked 48th out of 134 hospitals, with the figure 3.8 per cent below the same time last year.

The trust last hit the A&E waiting time target in May 2015.

For cancer care, Warrington Hospital came 99th out of 135 trusts for treating patients within 62 days of an urgent referral.

Against a target of 85 per cent, 79.8 per cent of patients were seen within that time in figures for August – with the average time for England standing at 82.6 per cent.

However the trust said that the low figure was due to data errors, having previously met the target in July this year.

In planned operation targets, trusts are expected to start treatment in the 18 weeks following a referral 92 per cent of the time.

Warrington Hospital met the target in August’s figures with figures of 92.8 per cent, compared to a national average of 89.4 per cent, and was ranked 26th out of 131 trusts.

Acting chief operating officer Jan Ross said: “Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust welcomes the BBC’s new NHS standards tracker and is pleased to see that it is outperforming both the region and the England average in the four-hour A&E standard wait.

“Like the majority of trusts around the country, we are working hard to achieve the 95 per cent standard set by NHS England and have a trajectory to meet this by March 2018.

“Patients waiting for planned operations were seen within the 92 per cent standard.

“On the 62-day wait standard for cancer, the trust did not achieve the target in the first quarter of 2017/18 due to reporting errors, but we are confident that the time patients waited to be seen did not deteriorate.

“We had switched to a new reporting system in line with national guidance and at the time of transition onto the new system we had some data errors – this affected our final reporting position.

“This situation was audited by our commissioners and internal auditors, all of whom concluded that this was a reporting error and that patients had been seen and treated as planned.”