Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with East Midlands Ambulance Service on its response times to calls.
There have been no such discussions.
East Midlands Ambulance Service is participating in the Dispatch on Disposition pilot of NHS England’s Ambulance Response Programme (ARP). The ARP is part of NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review, which will transform ambulance services from a service based on a model of transportation to one of clinical assessment and treatment. We expect NHS England will make recommendations in Spring 2017.