Ambulance Services: Standards
(asked on 30th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of (a) coroner and (b) serious incidence reports that have cited (i) ambulance delays to see a patient and (ii) waits outside of hospital in an ambulance as factors in (A) England, (B) Yorkshire and (C) York, in the latest year for which data is available.
The publication of Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports, and the Department’s response, is a matter for the Chief Coroner under the Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013. Reports are published by the Chief Coroner at the following link:
The total number of PFD reports is not held centrally by the Department. This is because the Department is not a recipient of all reports, as some reports are sent directly to the relevant National Health Service trust and/or NHS England. Similarly, the information requested on serious incident reports is not held in the format requested.
Information on patient safety incidents, including those relating to ambulance services, is published by NHS England as part of the National Reporting and Learning System. This does not specifically include a category of waits outside a hospital but does include safety incidents relating to ‘Access, admission, transfer, discharge (including missing patient)’. Further information is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/national-patient-safety-incident-reports/