Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of ambulance waiting times in (a) Coventry and (b) West Midlands in each month in 2017.

Following a rigorous and independent evaluation of the clinically-led Ambulance Response Programme, in July 2017 the Department agreed NHS England’s recommendations to implement an improved ambulance performance framework. These changes improve responses to patients and the efficiency and resiliency of the ambulance service in the face of rising demand. All mainland National Health Service ambulance trusts are now operating against this new framework, and the ambulance service on the Isle of Wight will do so from April 2018.

West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is largely meeting the new performance standards. Regional ambulance response time performance is available and is published monthly by NHS England. This can be found online at the following address. Response time performance by city or county area is not centrally collected.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/