A&E waiting times improved at the North East hospitals while facing the worse pressures over February, while Northumbria Healthcare continues to have the best record in England when it comes to seeing patients within four hours.
This bucks a national trend which saw performance fall slightly in February, though remain above the record lows seen in December. Across the North East's five acute NHS hospital trusts, on average the percentage of people seen in A&E in less than four hours improved slightly - by around 2%. 61.7% of people who arrived at an emergency department were seen in less than four hours.
Accounting for urgent care centres and other non A&E settings, that rises to 77.4%. In Northumbria, the best performing trust both in the region and in England, 92.3% of patients were seen in under four hours across urgent and emergency care. By comparison, the figure at all four other hospital trusts ranges between 71% and 75%.
