To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the longest waiting time for a 999 call to be answered by each ambulance service (a) from 1 to 15 October 2021 and (b) for the latest period for which data is available.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
15 December 2021
Information on the longest waiting time for a 999 call to be answered by each ambulance service is not routinely collected centrally. Information on the number of ambulance handover delays by trust since 1 April 2021 is not available in the format requested, as the information is not routinely collected centrally outside of the winter period. The following table shows the mean average response times in hours, minutes and seconds for each ambulance category in each month from April to September 2021.
Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | |
April | 07:00 | 20:16 | 59:21:00 | 01:45:36 |
May | 07:25 | 24:35:00 | 01:24:22 | 02:31:44 |
June | 07:54 | 30:42:00 | 01:54:40 | 02:30:34 |
July | 08:33 | 41:04:00 | 02:33:43 | 02:57:40 |
August | 08:28 | 38:39:00 | 02:14:24 | 02:39:44 |
September | 09:01 | 45:30:00 | 02:35:45 | 03:07:45 |
Source: Statistics ยป Ambulance Quality Indicators (england.nhs.uk)