Written questions

Ambulance Services: Standards

Commons · Question 900039 · Tabled 17 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 23 Jul 2024

Question

Asked by Oliver Ryan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of ambulance response times.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 23 Jul 2024

We have been clear our assessment is that ambulance response times have been wholly inadequate in recent years. Patients with serious conditions such as suspected strokes waited over 34 minutes on average last month for an ambulance to arrive - nearly twi...