Ambulance Services: Standards

(asked on 4th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to recategorise ambulance response times more accurately to reflect journey times.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 12th December 2017

There are no such plans.

Following an independent evaluation, we have agreed NHS England’s recommendation to introduce an improved ambulance performance framework, including the introduction of new response time categories. National Health Service ambulance trusts are now implementing these changes.

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