§ Mr. Gordon BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give the average response times for emergency ambulance calls in 1979 and the latest year available in(a) London, (b) Birmingham, (c) Liverpool, (d) Glasgow, (e) Cornwall and (f) East Anglia.
§ Mr. FreemanThe information available on response times is not precisely in the form requested. Data are collected about the times within which(a) 50 per cent. and (b) 95 per cent. of calls are responded to, rather than the average response times.
The latest figures relate to the financial year 1987–88, and are shown in the table. Figures for 1979 were not collected centrally. Figures relating to the financial years 1983–84 to 1986–87 are included in the package of health service indicators provided by the Department, which is in the Library. Information concerning provision of services in Glasgow is the responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend, the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Patient Transport Services Response times within which 50 per cent. and 95 per cent. of calls are responded to Ambulance authority 50 per cent. Minutes 95 per cent. Minutes London 10.00 19.00 Mersey Metropolitan 6.50 13.80 West Midlands Metropolitan 7.60 13.80 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 9.00 25.00 Cambridgeshire 8.00 18.00 Norfolk 6.40 17.70 Suffolk 7.50 20.50 Source: DH form KA34
(a) Perinatal mortality rate by country 1979 to 1987 Country Year 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 England 14.6 13.4 11.7 11.2 10.3 10.0 9.8 9.5 8.9 Wales 15.6 12.8 14.1 11.1 11.3 10.5 10.2 10.3 9.2 Scotland 14.1 13.1 11.6 11.5 10.6 11.0 9.8 10.2 8.9 Germany, Federal Republic 312.6 311.6 310.5 39.6 39.3 38.6 37.9 37.6 n.a. Sweden 19.1 18.7 17.7 17.8 17.3 17.3 47.3 n.a. n.a. France 33.8 312.9 312.3 311.9 311.4 311.2 310.7 310.4 n.a. United States of America 213.9 414.1 113.4 415.2 414.5 414.0 n.a. n.a. n.a.