Ambulance Services: Cotswold Hills
(asked on 1st July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group was allowed to alter its contract with South West Ambulance Trust to reduce average ambulance response times; and what effect reduction will have on ambulance response times in the Cotswolds.
We are advised by NHS England that the Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group has not altered its contract with South West Ambulance Services NHS Foundation Trust to reduce average ambulance response times.
The information requested is shown in the following tables:
Ambulance response times in the Cotswolds for January 2013 (Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust)
Type of response | Numbers of Responses | Percentage of calls that met required standard |
Red One | 700 | 75.7% |
Red Two | 9,208 | 75.0% |
Green One | 1,059 | 87.2% |
Green Two | 5,067 | 81.7% |
Source: NHS England
Ambulance response times in the Cotswolds for April 2014 (South West Ambulance Services NHS Foundation Trust, North only)
Type of response | Numbers of Responses | Percentage of calls that met required standard |
Red One | 691 | 71.4% |
Red Two | 9,550 | 74.4% |
Green One | 1,302 | 85.3% |
Green Two | 6,191 | 88.0% |
Source: NHS England