Ambulance Services, February 2010

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for February 2010.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 3 March.

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were almost 24,500 emergency calls, up 2.3% compared with February 2009;
• 65.3% of first responses to Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 70.9% within 9 minutes and 75.6% within 10 minutes;
• 91.3% of  Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls and 80.1% of  Category B (all other emergency) calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times;
• 74.9% 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

May 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)