Ambulance Services in Wales: September 2008

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for September 2008.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 1 October.

The key points from the latest release are:

• There were almost 26,000 emergency calls, up 5.1% compared with September 2007.
• 60.9% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 65.3% within 9 minutes and 69.1% within 10 minutes.
• 84.3% of  Category A calls and 77.7% of  Category B calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times.
• 81.0% of urgent journeys arrived not more than 15 minutes later than the requested arrival time.

Further information can be found on the StatsWales website

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5036
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk