Ambulance Services in Wales: January 2009

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for January 2009.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 4 February.

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were almost 26,500 emergency calls, up 5.9% compared with January 2008;
• 57.8% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 62.4% within 9 minutes and 66.8% within 10 minutes;
• 86.5% of  Category A calls and 78.3% of Category B calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times;
• 79.4% 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