Ambulance Services in Wales: November 2008

Statistics  on ambulance services in Wales include data for November 2008.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 3 December.

The key points from the latest release are:

• There were almost 26,500 emergency calls, up 6.1% compared with November  2007;
• 57.1% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 62.0% within 9 minutes and 66.0% within 10 minutes;
• 81.8% of  Category A calls and 74.7% 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.

Further information can be found on the StatsWales website.

Contact

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