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Time Spent in NHS Accident and Emergency Departments, May 2011

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The latest statistics on Time Spent in Accident and Emergency Departments produced by the Welsh Assembly Government were released on 23 June 2011 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning May 2010 through to May 2011. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 26 May 2011.

The key points from the latest release are:

  • 89.1 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 1.0 percentage points compared with April 2011.
  • 97.6 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 0.1 of a percentage point compared with April 2011.

All figures relating to May 2011 are provisional.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

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

Next update

21 July 2011