Ambulance Services: Greater London
(asked on 15th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of London Ambulance Service front-line staff in (a) London and (b) Enfield; and how many front-line staff there were in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) 2014 to date.
The information is not available in the format requested. London ambulance service (LAS) does not operate on a borough by borough geographical basis and patients in Enfield are clinically assessed and attended by the ambulance crew that can reach them most quickly.
Numbers of frontline staff* in post in the Edmonton Complex (which includes Chase Farm, Ponders End, Edmonton, Tottenham and Bounds Green ambulance stations) in the most recent years for which figures are available are shown in the following table. Numbers of frontline staff in post across London in each of the most recent five years are also shown in the following table.
Edmonton (WTE) | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
IN POST | n/a | n/a | 138 | 145 | 190 |
BUDGET | n/a | n/a | 132 | 152 | 189 |
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Total LAS (WTE) | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
IN POST | 2,956 | 2,893 | 2,753 | 2,652 | 2,647 |
BUDGET | 3,030 | 2,972 | 2,872 | 3,012 | 3,056 |
*’frontline staff’ includes all paramedic and non-paramedic grades that work on frontline crews.
WTE= whole time equivalent