Time Spent in NHS Accident and Emergency Departments, March 2012

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning March 2011 through to March 2012. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 29 March 2012.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 88.0 per cent of patients spent less than 4 hours in All Hospital Emergency Care facilities from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge. This is an increase of 1.3 percentage points from February 2012;
• 96.7 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours in All Hospital Emergency Care facilities from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge. This is an increase of 1.1 percentage points from February 2012; and
• Over the last two years, performance against the targets tended to drop over the winter months and then rise until the end of the summer months.

All figures relating to March 2012 are provisional.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2080 1268
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

31 May 2012