Time Spent in NHS Accident and Emergency Departments, July 2010

Please note: A production error has been identified in the statistical release, "Time spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments, July 2010". This error will be corrected alongside the release of data for August on Thursday 23 September. It is likely to lead to minor revisions to data for major Accident & Emergency departments for the months from April 2010 to July 2010. This error does not affect any other data in the release.

For further information please contact:

Alison Murtagh
Health Statistics and Analysis Unit,
Welsh Assembly Government
Cathays Park
Cardiff CF10 3NQ
Tel (029) 2080 1268
Fax (029) 2082 5350
E-mail: Stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning July 2009 through to July 2010. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 22 July 2010.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 91.9 per cent of patients spent less than 4 hours in All Hospital Emergency Care facilities from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, an increase of 0.3 percentage points compared with June.
• 98.2 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours in All Hospital Emergency Care facilities from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, an increase of 0.1 percentage points compared with June.
• 90.4 per cent of patients spent less than 4 hours in a Major A&E department from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, an increase of 1.1 percentage points compared with June.
• 98.0 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours in a Major A&E department from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared with June.

All figures relating to July 2010 are provisional.

Further information

StatsWales website

Contact

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

Next update

23 September 2010