National Survey for Wales, January to March 2012: Health results

The bulletin presents analysis of the Health results collected in the National Survey for Wales from January to March 2012.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 92% of people who saw a GP in the last 12 months and 92% of people who had a hospital appointment in the last 12 months were fairly or very satisfied with the care received
• 31% of people who made an appointment with a GP found it difficult to make a convenient appointment. Of those, 42% said this was because they had to wait a long time for an appointment
• 97% of people who saw a GP agreed that they were treated with dignity and respect; 95% of people who attended a hospital appointment agreed they were treated with dignity and respect
• of people who attended A&E in the last 12 months, 23% said they travelled by ambulance. 84% of people who attended A&E found it easy to travel there
• 24% of people agreed that they were kept informed about how local health services were performing. 59% would like more information about how local health services are performing
• overall, people gave ‘health services in Wales’ an average rating of 6.5 out of 10, which compares favourably with other European countries

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 6685
Email: surveys@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

March 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due out soon' page)