Ambulance Services in Wales: March 2008

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for March 2008.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 2 April.

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were just over  26,000 emergency calls, up 6.9% compared with March 2007;
• 60.9% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 65.9% within 9 minutes and 70.6% within 10 minutes;
• 87.8% of  Category A calls and 78.9% of  Category B calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times;
• 83.2% 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