Wrexham Among Highest In Wales For Ambulance Response Times

Wrexham is within the top performing in ambulance response times for Category A calls in Wales, new statistics show.

Monthly figures released today show that throughout November Wrexham was among the highest performing in Wales for ambulance response times for immediately life threatening calls.

Throughout November there were 602 Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls in Wrexham, with 584 of those incidents having a first response team attend the scene.

In total 372 incidents were attended by an ambulance crew within eight minutes; bringing the response time for Category A calls up to 63%. However this is just under the 65% ambulance response target.

Across North Wales and under Betsi Cadwaladr, Conwy was the highest performing in the region attending 69.3% of Category A calls in eight minutes.

The lowest performing in the region was Flintshire, who attended 42.8% of Category A calls within eight minutes.

Overall across North Wales there were 36,091 emergency calls, which is down 1.8% on October 2014 but 5.0% up on
November 2013. Of these, 14,061 were Category A calls, which is 0.9% down on October 2014 but 5.9% up on November 2013.

51.0% of emergency responses to Category A calls arrived at the scene within eight minutes – which is down from 55.5% in October 2014 and from 63.2% in November 2013 and below the target of 65%.

The median response time ranged from six minutes and 44 seconds in Betsi Cadwaladr to 10 minutes and 20 seconds in Cwm Taf.