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Welsh Ambulance Service figures show targets are being achieved (4 January 2016)

Date: 04/01/2016
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Welsh Ambulance Service figures show targets are being achieved

New figures published by the Welsh Ambulance Service on 30 December show that services are on target for patients most in need – with the standard emergency ambulance response for the most acutely ill patients being five minutes and 30 seconds during November.

November was the second month of a year long pilot to test changes to the way in which the Welsh Ambulance Service responds to patients.

The figures show that 70.8% of red calls – the most urgent emergency calls –
were responded to within eight minutes; and more than one-third of patients classified as requiring a red response received a response within just four minutes.

There were an average of 1,223 emergency calls per day – and all health board areas across Wales achieved a 70% or higher eight-minute response target, with the exception of the Hywel Dda University Health Board area.

Welsh Assembly Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said:

“I’m pleased to see the Welsh Ambulance Service is achieving the new response time target and helping to deliver excellent patient outcomes, as the pilot continues.

“These figures reveal the demands placed on the ambulance clinicians, clinical contact centres and hard-working first responder volunteers who work tirelessly to save people in life-threatening situations.

“The new system is helping to ensure people with an immediately life-threatening condition receive a response within eight minutes – this is helping people to get the right care in the right place, at the right time.

“I recognise that more needs to be done in some areas – and I expect the service to build on these early results and continue to improve to ensure people who need the life-saving skills of ambulance clinicians do so in the quickest time possible and get the best possible outcomes.”

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