Ambulance Services, June 2009

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for June 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 1 July.

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were almost 27,000 emergency calls, up 6.0% compared with June 2008;
• 66.7% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 70.9% within 9 minutes and 74.8% within 10 minutes;
• 90.8% of  Category A calls and 82.2% of Category B calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times;
• 80.1% 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

Next update

September 2009 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)