Time Spent in NHS Accident and Emergency Departments, September 2010

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning September 2009 through to September 2010. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 24th September 2010.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 88.5 per cent of patients spent less than 4 hours in All Hospital Emergency Care facilities from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 0.9 percentage points compared with August.
• 97.3 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours in All Hospital Emergency Care facilities from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 0.8 percentage points compared with August.
• 86.3 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 1 percentage point compared with August.
• 96.8 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 1 percentage point compared with August.

All figures relating to September 2010 are provisional.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

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

Next update

18 November 2010