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...