Ambulance Services in Wales: February 2008

Statistics on Ambulance Services provided by the NHS include data for Wales for the period February 2008. The latest release updates the statistics previously release on 5 March 2008.

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were just under 24,000 emergency calls, down 5.9% compared with February 2007.
• 61.2% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 65.8% within 9 minutes and 70.5% within 10 minutes.
• 88.4% of  Category A calls and 79.0% 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