The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) has the lowest waiting times of any emergency department in the country.
The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has consistently - according to NHS England data - been among the best performing trusts when it comes to urgent and emergency care for a number of months. And in December and January, set against huge pressures on the NHS, it was clearly the best performer.
Of hospitals catering to children and adults, its A&E and urgent care units saw a smaller percentage of people waiting more than four hours to be seen than anywhere else. A&E in Cramlington saw 8,476 people arrive in January - and of those 86.9% were seen in less than four hours. And there was not a single "trolley-waits" - where patients are stuck waiting to be admitted to hospital - of more than four hours.
