Ambulance Services

(asked on 30th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many call-outs each ambulance service in the UK received in each month since January 2016; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 7th December 2016

NHS England publishes the number of Category A Red One and Red Two calls responded to within eight minutes and the number of call-outs that receive a face to face response from the ambulance service. This data is published on a monthly basis at both an England national level and at individual ambulance trust level. Data up to September 2016, Ambulance System Indicators Time Series to September 2016 is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/

Ambulance services are facing unprecedented demand for their services. To address this, NHS England is exploring, as part of its Ambulance Response Programme, whether changes to the way that the ambulance service responds to calls could help improve response times to critically ill patients and improve outcomes for all patients who contact the ambulance service. As a result, the data published on ambulance performance is no longer consistent or available for all trusts.

Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.

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