Ambulance Services: Yorkshire and the Humber
(asked on 16th December 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) double crewed ambulances and (b) rapid response vehicles have operated in the Yorkshire Ambulance Service in each year since 2010.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service's average response time for (a) category 1 calls, (b) category 2 calls, (c) category 3 calls and (d) category 4 calls in each year since 2010 is not available as current ambulance response time standards were introduced in 2017 by National Health Service England. Relevant data on average response times is held and published from 2017-18 onwards.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service's average response time was for (a) category 1 calls, (b) category 2 calls, (c) category 3 calls and (d) category 4 calls in each year since 2017 can be found in the table below:
Mean ambulance response time - | ||||
Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | |
2017-18 | 00:07:48 | 00:23:57 | 00:55:04 | 01:20:41 |
2018-19 | 00:07:21 | 00:20:26 | 00:50:28 | 01:08:59 |
2019-20 | 00:07:12 | 00:20:34 | 00:48:09 | 00:52:33 |
2020-21 | 00:07:38 | 00:20:36 | 00:47:23 | 01:04:06 |
2021-22 | 00:09:13 | 00:34:32 | 01:44:42 | 02:30:26 |
Note: For the year 2017-18 this only includes figures from August 2017 to March 2018. For the year 2021-22 this only includes figures from April 2021 to November 2021 (latest published).
Source: National Health Service England
The number of a) doubled crewed ambulances and b) rapid response vehicles that have operated in the Yorkshire Ambulance Service in each year since 2010 is not held centrally.
In 2021, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service has 410 double crewed ambulances and 106 rapid response vehicles.