Ambulance Services: East Midlands

(asked on 19th June 2025) - 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 waiting time is for ambulances in the East Midlands Ambulance Service area.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 9th July 2025

The following table shows the latest East Midlands Ambulance Service response times by ambulance incident category:

Category

May 2025

Category 1 mean response time

00:08:33

Category 1 90th centile response time

00:15:04

Category 2 mean response time

00:31:26

Category 2 90th centile response time

01:02:27

Category 3 mean response time

01:52:10

Category 3 90th centile response time

04:15:28

Category 4 mean response time

02:14:03

Category 4 90th centile response time

05:27:31

Source: NHS England Ambulance Quality Indicators 2025/26

Notes:

  1. the latest data available is for May 2025; and
  2. the data format is hours: minutes: seconds.
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