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Ambulance Services: Stoke-on-Trent South

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 22845, tabled on 8 January 2025

Question

Dr Allison Gardner
Labour
Stoke-on-Trent South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce ambulance waiting times in Stoke-on-Trent South constituency.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Labour
Bristol South
Commons

Answered on

13 January 2025

The Government recognises the pressures on the National Health Service during the winter period and the impact this is having on ambulance response times, including in Stoke-on-Trent.

We are committed to supporting the National Health Service to improve performance and achieve the standards set out in the NHS Constitution but must be clear that there are no quick fixes.

However, we are determined to turn things around through investment and reform. The Chancellor announced £25.6 billion of additional healthcare funding over the next two years, and we will set out a 10-Year Health Plan to radically reform the NHS and build a health service that is fit for the future.

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