Emergency Services

(asked on 7th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulance calls were responded to by (a) the police and (b) the fire service in (i) England, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) Hyndburn constituency in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 10th July 2014

The performance standard for ambulance response times is that 75% of Category A life threatening calls are responded to within eight minutes.

Information on the percentage of ambulance responses to Category A immediately life threatening calls that failed to respond within eight minutes in England and the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust since April 2004 is shown in the following table.

Data relating to Lancashire and Hyndburn constituency is not collected separately. Lancashire and Hyndburn constituency is covered by the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Data around the numbers of ambulance calls responded to by the police and the fire service is not collected centrally.

Table showing the percentage of ambulance responses to Category A immediately life threatening calls that were not responded to within eight minutes in England and in the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, April 2004 to March 2014

England

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

2004-05

23.8%

23.3%

2005-06

24.7%

25.7%

2006-07

25.4%

27.3%

2007-08

22.9%

24.4%

2008-091

25.7%

25.7%

2009-10

25.7%

27.0%

2010-11

25.1%

26.4%

2011-122

23.9%

23.3%

2012-133

Category A (April to May 2012):

24.5%

23.2%

Red 1 (June 2012 to March 2013):

26.0%

26.5%

Red 2 (June 2012 to March 2013):

24.4%

23.4%

2013-14

Red 1:

24.4%

24.1%

Red 2:

25.2%

22.6%

Notes:

1From 1 April 2008, NHS ambulance trusts measured response times from the point when the call is presented to the control room telephone switch. Previously, response times were measured from the point when certain details had been ascertained from the caller. Therefore, data from 2008-09 onwards are not comparable with earlier years.

2Data up to 2010-11 are from the KA34 data collection by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, and not necessarily consistent with later data, which are supplied via NHS England.

3From June 2012 onwards, the single Category A eight minute response standard was replaced by two separate standards, Red 1 and Red 2. Due to differences in clock start definitions, it is not possible to aggregate performance of Red 1 and 2 into a total Category A performance.

Source: Ambulance quality indicators, NHS England

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