Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls
(asked on 10th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many ambulance services responded to 90 per cent of Category 2 calls within 40 minutes in 2018–19.
The English ambulances services whose 90th percentile response time for category 2 calls was within 40 minutes in 2018-19 are shown in the following table.
Ambulance Service | Category 2 2018-19 response times |
Isle of Wight Ambulance Service | 37:46 |
London Ambulance Service | 39:40 |
South Central Ambulance Service | 33:13 |
South East Coast Ambulance Service | 36:42 |
West Midlands Ambulance Service | 22:11 |
The 90th centiles for 2018-19 are an estimated position based on monthly aggregated data. Until 9 October 2018, Isle of Wight Ambulance Service continued to use the old Red 1/Red 2/Green categories operationally, and then assign each incident to the new categories C1 to C4 for data reporting. As such, its response times reflected the old category used for each incident, rather than the new category assigned to.