Time Spent in NHS Accident and Emergency Departments, October 2010
The latest statistics on Time Spent in Accident and Emergency Departments produced by the Welsh Assembly Government were released on 18th November 2010 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 October 2009 through to October 2010. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 21st October 2010.
The key points from the latest release are:
- 89.3 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 0.7 percentage points compared with September.
- 97.6 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 0.3 percentage points compared with September.
- 87.2 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 0.9 percentage point compared with September.
- 97.2 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 point compared with September.
All figures relating to October 2010 are provisional.
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Further information
Contact
Tel: 029 2080 1268
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk
Next update
23 December 2010
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