Ambulance Services: Standards
(asked on 24th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of ambulance waiting times in (a) London and (b) England in each month of 2016.
NHS England publishes the number of Category A Red One and Red Two calls responded to within eight minutes and the number of ambulances arriving at the scene within 19 minutes for a Category A call.
The table below shows the percentage of Red One and Red Two calls responded to within eight minutes and the percentage of Category A calls responded to within 19 minutes for London Ambulance Service. It also shows the national performance figure for January to March 2016 and the aggregate performance figure for April to August 2016. Aggregate performance represents only eight out of the 11 ambulance trusts as three trusts are taking part in the Ambulance Response Programme Clinical Coding Trials and as such no longer report Category A performance.
Table: Performance against Category A Ambulance Response Time Standards in 2016, in aggregate performance and London
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| Category A Red 1 calls responded to within 8 minutes – January - August 2016 (performance standard of 75%) | Category A Red 2 calls responded to within 8 minutes –January- August 2016 (performance standard of 75%) | Category A (Red 1 and Red 2) calls resulting in an ambulance arriving at the scene within 19 minutes January – August 2016 (performance standard of 75%) | |
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust | January 2016 | 67.3% | 60.9% | 92.6% | |
February 2016 | 64.7% | 56.4% | 91.3% | ||
March 2016 | 65.6% | 57.9% | 91.1% | ||
April 2016 | 70.0% | 64.6% | 94.2% | ||
May 2016 | 70.3% | 65.1% | 94.1% | ||
June 2016 | 72.2% | 65.3% | 94.4% | ||
July 2016 | 68.3% | 63.6% | 93.1% | ||
August 2016 | 68.7% | 67.4% | 94.0% | ||
England1 | January 2016 | 69.9% | 63.4% | 91.2% | |
February 2016 | 68.0% | 60.3% | 89.8% | ||
March 2016 | 66.5% | 58.0% | 88.0% | ||
Aggregate performance2 | April 2016 | 71.3% | 65.2% | 92.2% | |
May 2016 | 70.5% | 65.0% | 92.3% | ||
June 2016 | 69.2% | 62.9% | 91.1% | ||
July 2016 | 67.6% | 60.3% | 89.5% | ||
August 2016 | 70.0% | 63.8% | 91.3% | ||
Source: NHS England: Ambulance Quality Indicators
Notes:
1 up to April 2016, six of the 11 ambulance services were participating in the Ambulance Response Programme (ARP) Dispatch on Disposition pilot, including London Ambulance Service. This means that data are no longer reported consistently for the Category A Red 2 standard or for the Category A transportation standard.
2 From April 2016, performance data for England for all three Category A standards are no longer available. This is because South Western Ambulance Service and Yorkshire Ambulance Service were participating in the ARP Clinical Coding trial. West Midlands Ambulance Service joined the clinical coding trial in June 2016. This means that Category A Red 1 performance, whilst still reported, is only available in aggregate for eight of 11 ambulance services and is no longer comparable with previous months.
All other data measures unrelated to categorisation remain unaffected.