Written question WQ92321
- Asked by
- Andrew RT DaviesConservative
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 19 days
Question
Will the Minister outline why just 49.9 per cent of red calls receive an emergency response within eight minutes?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Many factors are contributing to make it difficult to achieve the national ambulance response time performance target, including increasing demand, ambulance patient handover delays which reduce available capacity, and higher-than-normal levels of staff sickness absence.
February saw the fourth highest daily number of red calls on record, and the third highest volume of red calls as a proportion of all calls.