Ambulance Services: Shropshire

(asked on 22nd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce ambulance (a) response and (b) handover to A&E times in Shropshire.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 11th April 2022

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is working with West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) and community partners to reduce conveyances of some patients to hospital as clinically appropriate, providing alternate treatment and care at home or in the community. The Trust is also working with WMAS to cohort ambulance patients at accident and emergency (A&E) departments. This involves a single ambulance crew taking responsibility for three to four patients within the A&E department, releasing crews to respond to outstanding calls in the community.

Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System also launched a winter health campaign to the end of March, designed to influence public behaviour with messaging to encourage the use of NHS 111 and local pharmacies, so that A&E departments are only used when necessary. Ambulances also have direct access to a same day emergency care centre at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

Reticulating Splines