Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls

(asked on 10th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the research by the Health Services Journal, published on 5 March, which showed that one in 10 patients who had made a Category 2 call for an ambulance service between April and September 2019 waited more than an hour for an ambulance in 27 Clinical Commissioning Group areas.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 23rd March 2020

No assessment has been made. All English ambulance services have adopted the Ambulance Response Programme model, and report data at trust level against the Ambulance Quality Indicators. There is no central data collection at clinical commissioning group level and no further assessment will be made, as it is a matter for local commissioners.

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