Figures released by the Bureau of Health Information show that there were 326 ambulance arrivals at the Cowra Hospital Emergency Department from April to June this year.

This was down from 359 in the same period last year, a drop of 9.2 percent.

There were 1328 presentations to the Emergency Department in April to June 2020, down from 1805 in the same time period in 2019, a drop of 26.9 percent.

In the resuscitation category the numbers rose slightly, from eight to 10.

The emergency category remained steady at 141 presentations.

There was a significant decrease in the urgent category, from 491 to 392, the equivalent of a 20.2 percent drop, and an even greater fall in the semi-urgent category, which crashed by nearly a third from 897 to 626.

Meanwhile, the April to June period saw a massive decrease in the non-urgent category, down from 268 cases in April to June 2019 to 159 in 2020.

Admissions from the emergency department dropped also.

In 2019 268 patients were admitted from emergency. The figure fell to 212 in April to June this year, a fall of just over 20 per cent.

As was the case last year, 84 per cent of patients left the Emergency Department within four of hours of presenting.

The median time patients spent in emergency was one hour and 41 minutes.

There were 25 babies born at the Cowra Hospital during the April to June period, the same number as in 2019.

Only two hospitals across the state recorded an increase in ambulance arrivals in the April to June period - Young and Moree.