Ambulance Services: South West
(asked on 7th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of emergency ambulance calls met the national response time targets for each category of call in the South West in each month since January 2024.
NHS England publishes official statistics for ambulance service performance. These statistics include average response time performance by category of incident. However, official statistics are not available on the proportion or longest response times. The following table shows the average response times for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, in hours, minutes and seconds, broken down by category, from April 2024 to March 2025:
Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | |
April 2024 | 0:09:28 | 0:36:48 | 1:39:18 | 1:45:02 |
May 2024 | 0:09:42 | 0:40:40 | 2:06:24 | 2:07:45 |
June 2024 | 0:09:41 | 0:43:14 | 2:07:44 | 1:59:21 |
July 2024 | 0:09:28 | 0:39:09 | 1:48:25 | 1:46:47 |
August 2024 | 0:09:39 | 0:32:29 | 1:22:39 | 1:26:47 |
September 2024 | 0:09:41 | 0:42:49 | 2:12:56 | 2:28:53 |
October 2024 | 0:10:27 | 0:57:38 | 3:48:29 | 4:06:36 |
November 2024 | 0:10:16 | 0:59:03 | 3:44:06 | 3:12:55 |
December 2024 | 0:09:57 | 1:00:32 | 4:00:16 | 3:58:37 |
January 2025 | 0:09:41 | 0:51:45 | 2:35:27 | 3:36:47 |
February 2025 | 0:09:10 | 0:40:28 | 2:14:13 | 2:49:12 |
March 2025 | 0:09:00 | 0:37:02 | 1:57:13 | 2:25:05 |