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Ambulance Services: Standards

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 82412, tabled on 8 November 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average waiting time for an ambulance in England (a) in August, (b) in September, (c) in October and (d) from 1 November to 8 November 2022.

Answered on

21 November 2022

The information is not collected in the format requested.

The following table shows the mean average ambulance waiting times in hours, minutes and seconds for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 incidents in England in each month from August to October 2022.

Month

Category 1

Category 2

Category 3

Category 4

August

9:08

0:42:44

5:41:13

7:27:56

September

9:19

0:47:59

6:51:31

7:48:12

October

9:56

1:01:19

8:49:35

9:54:11

Source: NHS Ambulance Quality Indicators.