Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of ambulance A&E responses for red 2 patients in Preston have exceeded the mandatory response time of between eight and 19 minutes in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
The information is not available in the format requested. NHS England publishes ambulance response statistics by ambulance service NHS Trust.
The proportion of responses by the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust that were within eight and 19 minutes are shown in the following table.
| Proportion of Red 1 emergency responses within 8 minutes | Proportion of Red 2 emergency responses within 8 minutes | Proportion of Category A ambulance responses within 19 minutes |
2009-10* | Not available | Not available | 95.4% |
2010-11* | Not available | Not available | 95.6% |
2011-12 | Not available | Not available | 95.5% |
2012** | 74.1% | 77.3% | 95.1% |
2013 | 74.8% | 77.1% | 95.5% |
2014 | 71.3% | 72.1% | 94.4% |
Source: NHS England
Notes:
*NHS England started collecting monthly ambulance response times in April 2011 (source: www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators). Figures for 2009-10 and 2010-11 are response times for whole financial years collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (source: www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB11062).
**The Red 1 and Red 2 definitions were first used in June 2012. Figures for Red 1 and Red 2 for 2012 comprise June to December 2012.