Mid Wales ambulance response times improve
Friday 3rd September 2010, 11:42AM BST.
Praises have been heaped upon ambulance workers in Mid Wales after a marked improvement in the emergency response times recorded in the area.
The latest figures for July show 66 per cent of responses in the county resulted in an ambulance arriving within an eight-minute target.
In July last year the figure stood at 53 per cent, while in April 2009 it was as low as 46 per cent.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was the sixth successive month that crews in Wales had exceeded a 65 per cent national target.
Richard Lee, regional director of Ambulance Services in Central and West Wales, said the ambulance service was “grateful to all staff for their continued hard work”.
In April, 70.5 per cent of emergency responses in Wales resulted in an ambulance arriving within eight minutes, but in July that dropped slightly to 69.3 per cent.
Mr Lee said: “We are grateful to all staff for their continued hard work throughout July which helped us to sustain performance above the 65 per cent all Wales target for responses to patients with life threatening emergencies for the sixth-month in a row.
“We are working hard to consistently achieve the national response time target and improve performance at a local level to provide the best quality of care for patients.”
Response times in Powys have been criticised in the past for repeatedly failing to reach a 60 per cent target for local authority areas.
July’s improved performance has also been praised by Brecon and Radnorshire AM Kirsty Williams.
She said it was down to a range of measures, including a scheme to treat more people with minor injuries at hospitals in Llandrindod Wells and Brecon.
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