PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (26 June 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) ambulances, (b) doctors, (c) paramedics and (d) emergency medical technicians were operationally available for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust on the latest date for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Mr Mark Francois (Conservative)

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of doctors, ambulance paramedics and emergency medical technicians working in East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, as at March 2019 (latest data).

	Number of Staff (Full time equivalent)
Doctors	0
Ambulance Paramedics	1,314
Emergency medical technicians	808

The figures above show the full-time equivalent number of staff employed, not all of whom are operationally available at any point in time due to for example working on a rota based system or being absent due to sick leave or annual leave.

Ambulance trusts are responsible for providing emergency access to healthcare. As such doctors are not typically part of ambulance crews which are made up of an emergency care assistant and a paramedic.

The Department does not hold information centrally on the number of ambulances operationally available in East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Answered by:
Stephen Hammond (Conservative)
1 July 2019