Time Spent in NHS Accident and Emergency Departments, July 2009

Statistics on Time Spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency Departments include data for Wales for the period beginning July 2008 through to July 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 23 July 2009.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 91.0 per cent of patients spent less than 4 hours from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 1.0 percentage points compared with June.
• 99.0 per cent of patients spent less than 8 hours from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points compared with June.

All figures relating to July 2009 are provisional.

Further information can be found at the StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5064
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

24 September 2009