Table 2 Distribution of time from hospital arrival to thrombolysis (door‐to‐needle time) for eligible patients (excluding the 10% of patients who fail to receive treatment), baseline and proposed for achieving the National Service Framework 30 minute target.

Door‐to‐needle time (min)	Baseline, percentage of patients*	75th percentile in 30 minutes, percentage of patients
0–29	29.8	75.3
30–59	33.7	18.1
59–119	24.9	4.9
120–239	8.8	1.1
>240	2.5	0.6

*Data extracted from the West Midlands Thrombolysis Project dataset.