Ambulance Services, May 2011

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for May 2011.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 1 June.

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were almost 29,500 emergency calls, up 2.7% compared with May 2010;
• 71.2% of first responses to Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 76.7% within 9 minutes and 80.7% within 10 minutes;
• 93.7% of  Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls and 82.2% of  Category B (all other emergency) calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times;
• 76.1% of urgent journeys arrived not more than 15 minutes later than the requested arrival time.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5086
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

3 August 2011