Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments: April 2009

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning April 2008 through to April 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 23 April 2009.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 88.0 per cent of patients spent less than 4 hours in a Major A&E department from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points compared with March.
• 98.0 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours in a Major A&E department from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, an increase of 0.3 percentage points compared with March.

All figures relating to April 2009 are provisional.

Further information can be found at the StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5064
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk