PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Ambulance Services: Standards (17 July 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of ambulance response times.
Asked by:
Oliver Ryan (Labour)
Asked by:
Oliver Ryan (Labour)
Answer
We have been clear our assessment is that ambulance response times have been wholly inadequate in recent years. Patients with serious conditions such as suspected strokes waited over 34 minutes on average last month for an ambulance to arrive – nearly twice as long as the 18-minute standard. This Government is committed to returning the NHS to the Constitution’s standards.
Answered by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
23 July 2024
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