Joan Walley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Joan Walley on 2014-05-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the West Midlands Ambulance Service’s system’s indicators performance in 2012-13; and what assessment he has made of the reasons for changes in that level of performance.

Jane Ellison

A copy of West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (FT) system indicators performance data for 2012-13 has been placed in the Library.

The Department is aware that West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS FT met all three response time targets for the full year in 2012-13; despite a challenging winter period; a 6.9% rise in emergency calls; and a delay to the launch of the 111 system by NHS Direct in the West Midlands.