Ambulance Services, July 2009

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for July 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 5 August.  

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were just over 28,000 emergency calls, up 5.9% compared with July 2008;
• 63.9% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 68.2% within 9 minutes and 72.2% within 10 minutes;
• 89.6% of  Category A calls and 80.4% of Category B calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times; and
• 79.5% 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

7 October 2009