Ambulance Services in Wales: January 2008

Key facts:

• there were just under 25,000 emergency calls, down 5.1% compared with January 2007;
• 58.9% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 64.1% within 9 minutes and 68.7% within 10 minutes;
• 86.2% of  Category A calls and 76.6% of  Category B calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times;
• 79.0% of urgent journeys arrived not more than 15 minutes later than the requested arrival time.

 Further information can be found on the StatsWales website

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5036
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk