Ambulance Services: Standards
(asked on 17th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the average waiting time for an ambulance in each of the last five years.
The information is not available in the format requested.
Ambulance response times are measured by response time category. The following table shows the mean average ambulance response times in hours, minutes and seconds in England for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 incidents in each year since August 2017.
| Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 |
August 2017 to March 2018 | 0:08:23 | 0:25:51 | 1:04:36 | 1:30:32 |
2018/19 | 0:07:18 | 0:21:47 | 1:01:46 | 1:25:42 |
2019/20 | 0:07:18 | 0:23:50 | 1:11:04 | 1:26:09 |
2020/21 | 0:07:03 | 0:20:57 | 0:54:41 | 1:22:51 |
2021/22 | 0:08:39 | 0:41:18 | 2:13:39 | 3:07:10 |
April to September 2022 | 0:09:08 | 0:48:51 | 2:38:09 | 3:15:20 |
Source: NHS Ambulance Quality Indicators.