Ambulance Services: East Midlands
(asked on 6th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average ambulance response times in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands were in the latest period for which figures are available; and what steps she is taking to help reduce ambulance response times in those areas.
Lincolnshire and the East Midlands are served by the East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS). The following table shows the average EMAS response time, broken down by response time category, in January 2024:
Response time category | Response time |
Category 1 | 00:09:08 |
Category 2 | 00:49:59 |
Category 3 | 02:48:54 |
Category 4 | 02:48:56 |
Source: Ambulance response times are published monthly by NHS England, and are available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/
Our Delivery Plan for Recovering Urgent and Emergency Care Services sets out a range of measures to support the reduction of Category 2 response times to 30 minutes on average. To increase capacity and improve ambulance response times, ambulance services are receiving £200 million of additional funding this year, alongside the delivery of new ambulances.