Time Spent in NHS Accident and Emergency Departments, December 2009

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning December 2008 through to December 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 17 December 2009.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 86.9 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 2.4 percentage points compared with November.
• 97.5 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours in a Major A&E department from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points compared with November.

All figures relating to December 2009 are provisional.

Further information can be found on the StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2080 1268
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

18 February 2010