Ambulance Services: Camberwell and Peckham

(asked on 20th January 2017) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 25th January 2017

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.

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