Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the wellbeing of ambulance staff operating at Resource Escalation Action Plan Level Four long-term for (a) the South Central Ambulance Service and (b) ambulance services throughout the country.
Since July 2021, all ambulance services in England have been operating at Resource Escalation Action Plan level four.
In September, NHS England and NHS Improvement provided £1.7 million across 11 ambulance trusts for health and wellbeing packages. Whilst specific to each ambulance trust, it is focused on health and wellbeing and signposting to wellbeing hubs, apps and helplines. NHS England and NHS Improvement have also allocated an extra £55 million to ambulance trusts to increase staff numbers during the winter, providing further capacity in control rooms and on the frontline.