Ambulance Services in Wales: July 2008

Statistics on ambulance services in Wales include data for July 2008.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 6 August.

The key points from the latest release are:

• there were almost 26,500 emergency calls, up 2.4% compared with July 2007;
• 63.0% of first responses to immediately life-threatening emergency  (Category A) calls arrived within 8 minutes, 67.4% within 9 minutes and 71.9% within 10 minutes;
• 89.3% of  Category A calls and 83.3% of  Category B calls resulted in an ambulance arriving at the scene within the target times;
• 81.1% 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