Ambulance Services, October 2010
The latest National Statistics on the ambulance service in Wales produced by the Welsh Assembly Government were released on 1 December according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for October 2010. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 3 November.
The key points from the latest release are:
- there were just over 30,000 emergency calls, up 8.1% compared with October 2009;
- 69.1% of first responses to Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 73.9% within 9 minutes and 78.1% within 10 minutes;
- 92.6% of Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls and 82.6% of Category B (all other emergency) calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times;
- 74.5% of urgent journeys arrived not more than 15 minutes later than the requested arrival time.
Further information
Contact
Tel: 029 2082 5086
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk
Next update
5 January 2011
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