Ambulance Services, September 2009

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for September 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 7 October.

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were just over 26,000 emergency calls, up 1.9% compared with September 2008;
• 67.1% of first responses to Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 71.5% within 9 minutes and 75.8% within 10 minutes;
• 91.4% of  Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls and 81.9% of  Category B (all other emergency) 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

Next update

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