Ambulance Services in Wales: October 2008

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for October 2008.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 5 November.

The key points from the latest release are:

• There were almost 27,000 emergency calls, up 4.9% compared with October 2007.
• 58.8% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 63.6% within 9 minutes and 68.4% within 10 minutes.
• 84.0% of  Category A calls and 75.9% of  Category B calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times.
• 77.8% of urgent journeys arrived not more than 15 minutes later than the requested arrival time.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5036
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk