Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for ambulances in each of the last 10 years.
This information is not available in the format requested. Data about ambulance response time performance in England is published monthly by NHS England and can be found online at the following address:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/
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. Due to these changes to the waiting time performance standards, data from previous years are no longer comparable.