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Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments: Management Information, November 2012

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We will be examining the publication arrangements to ensure they add value.

Time spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency departments, quality report

This report covers the general principles and processes leading up to the production of our statistics.
As pre-announced in the NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments Statistical Release published on 30 August 2012, there is a new approach to publishing the emergency departments waiting times data for the August 2012 data onwards.

The monthly data will now be published by NHS Wales Informatics Service on their website as management information, around the 15th day of each month.

The Statistical Release and Quality report provide advice on the quality of this information and what it can be used for. This information is classified as management information as it has not gone through the additional statistical validation or interrogation that is normally the case for the official statistics outputs.

The November 2012 management information has been published by the NHS Wales Informatics Service on 14 December 2012.

A wider user consultation on our statistical outputs was also issued on 1 October and we will use this to ensure that this new approach continues to meet user needs and explore how to improve and extend this further. We will also seek your views as to how frequently we should publish these official statistics (quarterly, annually etc) in the future. For further details on the changes see the Quality Report.

Revision note

There have been resubmissions for March to July 2012 data: the StatsWales tables have been updated to reflect these changes. Any revisions to management information for August 2012 onwards will be handled by NHS Wales Informatics Service.

For March to July 2012 data at all Wales level, the resubmissions resulted in less than 0.2 percentage points difference in the percentage seen within 4 hours and the percentage seen within 8 hours for all emergency care facilities (with some changes at LHB level as well). There were also changes to the number of attendances and numbers seen within 4 and 8 hours. The impact of this will be looked at in the next official statistics publication.

Further information

NHS Wales Informatics Service website: Accident and Emergency

StatsWales website

Contact

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

Next update

January 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on Due Out Soon page)