NHS Wales · Cardiff & Vale focus

Health dashboard

Human-readable NHS performance signals for the Vale, backed by resilient caching.

ℹ️

NHS services in the Vale are provided by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. Most health data covers the whole health board area. Where available, we show Vale-specific figures.

Vale of GlamorganVale-specific data

Cardiff & Vale UHBHealth board-wide data

Emergency department live status

Cardiff & Vale UHBLive — updates every 5 minutes

Real-time data from NHS Wales · Cardiff & Vale hospitals

Princess of Wales Hospital

Open

Wait time

Up to 3 hrs 30 mins

Patients

—

🕐24/7

Royal Glamorgan Hospital

Open

Wait time

Up to 3 hrs

Patients

—

🕐24/7

University Hospital Llandough

Open

Wait time

Up to 2 hrs

Patients

—

🕐24/7

University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Open

Wait time

Up to 4 hrs

Patients

—

🕐24/7

Barry Hospital

Open

Wait time

Up to 1 hr

Patients

—

📞 Phone First — call 111

🕐8am - 10pm

Emergency & Ambulance

Cardiff & Vale UHB📅 Monthly data: March 2026

Latest period: March 2026

4-hour target

Data missing from source

Cardiff & Vale emergency department performance

Attendances

12,146

All emergency care facilities

Median emergency department time

03:02

Cardiff & Vale combined

Red calls

669

Ambulance emergency calls

Emergency department target performance

Latest period: March 2026

Within 4 hour--Data missing from source

Within 8 hour--Data missing from source

Within 12 hour--Data missing from source

Pipeline health

🔧

🔧 Debug — real-time pipeline status

Debug Tool — helping us test data pipelines

Status: Fresh cache / live refresh

Source: cache

Fetched: 26/10/2026, 06:50:07

Cache file: Present

Cache modified: 26/10/2026, 06:50:07

If StatsWales is down, cached data is served for up to 14 days.

Ambulance call mix

Top categories for Cardiff & Vale (latest month)

Green: Planned189

Yellow: Soon638

Orange: Now1,530

Red: Emergency669

Purple: Arrest93

Median time by location

📅 Monthly data: March 2026

Emergency department median time snapshot

University Hospital Of Wales03:19

The Barry Hospital00:53

Cardiff & Vale03:02

Data: March 2026

Waiting Lists

Cardiff & Vale UHB📅 Monthly data: April 2023

Referral-to-treatment pathways and cancer waiting times

ℹ️RTT = Referral to Treatment — measures how long patients wait from GP referral to receiving treatment

Total pathways waiting

145,510

Referral-to-treatment · April 2023

Within 26 weeks

52.9%

Referral-to-treatment · July 2025

Over 36 weeks

36.6%

Patients waiting over 36 weeks

Cancer treatments

253

Cancer · January 2025

Referral-to-treatment waiting time distribution

Cardiff & Vale · July 2025

Up to 26 weeks52.9%

26 to 36 weeks10.5%

Over 36 weeks36.6%

Most Patients Waiting by Specialty— 72,755 total

April 2023

General Surgery7,501

Allied Health Profession Services6,409

Trauma and Orthopaedic6,048

Ophthalmology5,804

Diagnostic Services5,543

Cardiology4,369

Ear, Nose and Throat4,145

Gastroenterology4,076

Cancer treatments by site

📅 Monthly data: January 2025

January 2025 ·

Urological52

Skin49

Lower Gastrointestinal31

Lung29

Breast25

Haematological (excluding acute leukaemia)20

Head and neck18

Upper Gastrointestinal12

General practice appointments

Cardiff & Vale UHB📅 Quarterly data: December 2025-26

Appointments across Cardiff & Vale

General practice appointments

641,754

December 2025 (financial year 2025-26)

General practitioner headcount

464

As of 31/03/2026

General practitioner full-time equivalent

Data missing from source

Full-time equivalent

Patients registered

137,100

October 2025

Appointment types

December 2025 (financial year 2025-26)

Face to face145,443 (71.6%)

Remote55,315 (27.2%)

Home visit2,312 (1.1%)

Patient Registrations

Cardiff & Vale UHB📅 Annual data: October 2025

Registered patients across Cardiff & Vale clusters

Patients by cluster

October 2025

Central Vale67,553

Eastern Vale36,919

Western Vale32,628

General practitioner workforce

Cardiff & Vale UHB📅 Annual data: 31/03/2026

Staffing levels across Cardiff & Vale

General practitioner workforce breakdown

31/03/2026

GP practitioner

364

Partner/Provider/Senior Partner

212

Salaried

152

GP locum

105

System Pressure

Cardiff & Vale UHB📅 Monthly data

Delayed hospital discharges across Cardiff & Vale

Delayed discharges

Data missing from source

Cardiff & Vale

Days delayed

Data missing from source

Total bed days lost

Avg days per delay

Data missing from source

Mean length of delay

Data unavailable

Health Deprivation

Vale of Glamorgan📅 Static data: WIMD 2019

Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2019 health domain

ℹ️WIMD measures health deprivation using indicators like chronic conditions, mental health, and long-term illness rates. Lower ranks = less deprived (healthier).

Health deprivation by neighbourhood

WIMD 2019 · Most deprived areas first

Castle 2 North

Least deprived

of 51

Ebbw Vale North 2

Least deprived

of 51

Ebbw Vale South 1

Least deprived

of 51

Merthyr Vale 2

Least deprived

of 51

Llantwit Major 6

Least deprived

of 51

Ebbw Vale North 1

Least deprived

of 51

Merthyr Vale 1

Least deprived

of 51

Ebbw Vale South 3

Least deprived

of 51

Rhoose 2

Least deprived

of 51

Castle 7 West

Least deprived

#10

of 51

Rhoose 1

Below average deprivation

#11

of 51

Ebbw Vale North 3

Below average deprivation

#12

of 51

Dinas Powys 3

Below average deprivation

#13

of 51

Merthyr Vale 3

Below average deprivation

#14

of 51

Wenvoe 2

Below average deprivation

#15

of 51

Showing top 15 of 51 areas

Health indicators breakdown

Sample of health measures used in deprivation ranking

Example: Castle 2 North

Low birth weight8.1%

Children aged 4-5 who are obese--

GP-recorded chronic condition19.3

Limiting long-term illness37.5

GP-recorded mental health condition34.7

Data notes

Official aggregated NHS Wales performance data from StatsWales.
Live hospital-level A&E operational feeds are marked as under development.