Time Spent in NHS Accident and Emergency Departments, August 2010

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning August 2009 through to August 2010. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 19th August 2010.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 89.4 per cent of patients spent less than 4 hours in All Hospital Emergency Care facilities from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 1.2 percentage points compared with July.
• 98.1 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours in All Hospital Emergency Care facilities from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, no change compared with July.
• 87.3 per cent of patients spent less than 4 hours in a Major A&E department from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 1.5 percentage points compared with July.
• 97.8 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours in a Major A&E department from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points compared with July.

All figures relating to August 2010 are provisional.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2080 1268
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

21 October 2010