Dan Jarvis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2014-06-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average ambulance response times in (a) Doncaster, (b) Barnsley, (c) Rotherham and (d) Sheffield was in each year since May 2010; and what the national average response time was in each of those years.
Jane Ellison
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.
Information is not available before 2011.
Table: The median ambulance response times to treatment for category A1 (red 1 and red 2 calls require staff to arrive at the scene of the incident within eight minutes in 75% of cases) calls for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, April 2011 to April 2014
|
Month |
Median time to treatment for Category A calls (in minutes) |
|
April 2011 |
5.4 |
|
May 2011 |
5.2 |
|
June 2011 |
5.2 |
|
July 2011 |
5.3 |
|
August 2011 |
5.2 |
|
September 2011 |
5.2 |
|
October 2011 |
5.3 |
|
November 2011 |
5.2 |
|
December 2011 |
5.4 |
|
January 2012 |
5.0 |
|
February 2012 |
5.3 |
|
March 2012 |
5.1 |
|
April 2012 |
4.9 |
|
May 2012 |
5.0 |
|
June 2012 |
5.1 |
|
July 2012 |
5.3 |
|
August 2012 |
5.3 |
|
September 2012 |
5.5 |
|
October 2012 |
5.5 |
|
November 2012 |
5.5 |
|
December 2012 |
6.0 |
|
January 2013 |
5.7 |
|
February 2013 |
5.7 |
|
March 2013 |
5.5 |
|
April 2013 |
5.3 |
|
May 2013 |
5.2 |
|
June 2013 |
5.3 |
|
July 2013 |
5.6 |
|
August 2013 |
5.6 |
|
September 2013 |
5.5 |
|
October 2013 |
5.6 |
|
November 2013 |
5.7 |
|
December 2013 |
5.9 |
|
January 2014 |
5.5 |
|
February 2014 |
5.7 |
|
March 2014 |
5.6 |
|
April 2014 |
6.4 |
Source: Ambulance quality indicators, NHS England
www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators
Notes:
1. Category A calls are defined as those that are the result of immediately life threatening incidents.
2. It is not possible to calculate the median time to treatment for England from the medians for individual Ambulance Trust.
