London Ambulance Service: Standards
(asked on 31st October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the London Ambulance Service has met any of the government pledges on waiting times, as set out in the handbook to NHS Constitutions, for responding to Category 1 to Category 4 calls in any monthly period over the past 3 years; and if so, what those periods were.
This information is not held in the format requested. The following table shows the mean Category 1 response time in hours, minutes and seconds for each ambulance trust in England in September 2022. However, this is not comparable to September 2010 and September 2016 as the current standards for ambulance response times were introduced in 2017/18. The following table also shows the last monthly period in which each ambulance trust in England responded to Category 1 calls within an average of seven minutes.
Trust | Mean Category 1 ambulance response time in September 2022 | Last period in which mean Category 1 response time was less than or equal to seven minutes |
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East Midlands | 00:09:07 | July 2020 |
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East of England | 00:10:49 | April 2021 |
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Isle of Wight | 00:10:40 | Has not been achieved within the reporting time period |
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London | 00:07:14 | May 2022 |
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North East | 00:07:31 | February 2022 |
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North West | 00:08:43 | June 2020 |
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South Central | 00:09:42 | May 2021 |
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South East Coast | 00:09:28 | May 2020 |
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South Western | 00:11:10 | July 2020 |
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West Midlands | 00:08:20 | May 2021 |
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Yorkshire | 00:10:00 | July 2020 |
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Source: NHS Quality Indicators
The mean Category 1 (C1) response time standard of seven minutes was last met by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) in April and May 2022. Between September 2019 and February 2020, the response time standard was achieved in each month except December 2019. The standard was achieved in each month between May 2020 and August 2021 and January to February 2022. The 90th percentile response time standard of 15 minutes for C1 incidents has been met by the LAS in every month in the last three years except in March 2020.
The mean response time standard of 18 minutes for Category 2 (C2) incidents was last met by the LAS in February to April 2021 and between May and November 2020. The C2 90th percentile response time standard of 40 minutes was last met by the LAS in February to April 2021. It was met in each month between May and November 2020, September to October 2019 and January 2020.
The Category 3 90th percentile response time standard of 120 minutes was last met by the LAS in February and March 2021 and between April and November 2020. The Category 4 90th percentile response time standard of 180 minutes was last met by the LAS in February 2021 and in each month between April and November 2020 except September and also in October 2019 and January 2020.