Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulances based in Camberwell and Peckham have responded outside the (a) Category A and (b) Category C response-time target in each of the last five years.
The information in relation to category A is shown in the following table.
Number of Category A incidents responded to outside of the Category A response time target NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group (which covers Camberwell and Peckham), 2012-13 to 2016-17
Year | Total Category A incidents | Total number of category A incidents outside of the eight minute target response time | Total number of category A incidents outside of the 19 minute target response time | Category A within eight minutes (percentage ) | Category A within 19 minutes (percentage) |
2012-13 | 16,564 | 3,225 | 259 | 80.5% | 98.4% |
2013-14 | 17,672 | 3,571 | 427 | 79.8% | 97.6% |
2014-15 | 18,718 | 6,194 | 1,262 | 66.9% | 93.3% |
2015-16 | 18,862 | 5,732 | 1,086 | 69.6% | 94.2% |
2016-17* | 13,207 | 3,430 | 626 | 74.0% | 95.3% |
*2016/17 data is from 1 April 2016 to 30 November 2016
Source: NHS Improvement
Category C calls are not formally reported on response times as there is no national response time standard.