Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments: August 2008

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning August 2007 through to August 2008. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 21 August 2008.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 93.7 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 0.2 percentage points compared with July.
• 99.1 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 less than 0.1 percentage points compared with July.

All figures relating to August 2008 are provisional.

Further information can be found on the StatsWales website

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3134
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk