HC Deb 21 October 1993 vol 230 cc306-7W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of ambulances in each service in England responded within(a) eight minutes and (b) 14 to 20 minutes to emergency calls in (i) 1992–93 and (ii) the first half of 1993–94.

Mr. Sackville

Information for 1992–93 is shown in the table. This information is collected annually and, therefore, no figures are available for the first half of 1993–94.

Patient transport services Emergency calls: Response times 1992–93
England
Ambulance authority Total number of emergency calls resulting in ambulance arriving at scene of incidents (thousands) Response within 8 minutes (per cent.) Response within 19 minutes (rural) 14 minutes (urban) (per cent.)
Rural authorities
Cumbria 15.3 55.6 91.2
Durham 30.3 51.6 97.1
Humberside 43.0 72.8 99.2
Northumbria (NHS Trust) 77.6 67.8 99.0
North Yorkshire 23.1 58.8 95.4
Derbyshire 35.2 46.6 95.7
Leicestershire 32.6 54.4 97.f0
Lincolnshire (NHS Trust) 17.8 62.2 95.3
Nottinghamshire 54.7 57.9 97.7
Cambridgeshire 19.1 40.9 94.2
Norfolk (NHS Trust) 27.5 57.5 96.7
Suffolk 11.9 53.2 92.1
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 59.6 54.3 96.9
Essex (NHS Trust) 66.1 57.8 98.6
East Sussex 36.9 67.7 97.7
Kent 57.8 55.2 96.4
West Sussex 26.8 65.6 97.3
Dorset 27.8 54.6 96.1
Hampshire 46.7 55.9 97.4
Wiltshire 15.1 60.7 95.9
Isle of Wight 4.3 59.5 97.9
Berkshire 28.4 58.9 99.0
Buckinghamshire 22.1 62.0 97.0
Northamptonshire 17.8 68.0 98.2
Oxfordshire 16.1 51.8 94.2
Cornwall (NHS Trust) 16.5 41.2 90.0
Devon (NHS Trust) 38.4 60.2 98.5
Gloucestershire (NHS Trust) 13.5 57.8 96.8
Somerset 11.8 58.9 94.7
Hereford and Worcester 21.3 61.9 97.1
Shropshire 12.7 51.1 96.0
Staffordshire (NHS Trust) 39.6 53.4 95.3
Warwickshire 14.4 49.4 95.3
Lancashire 69.8 65.9 98.7
Urban authorities
Cleveland (NHS Trust) 24.2 73.0 97.0
West Yorkshire 108.2 55.0 94.0
South Yorkshire (NHS Trust) 56.4 46.6 89.9
Surrey 44.0 55.1 94.8
London Ambulance Service 474.5 11.3 58.5
Avon (NHS Trust) 37.0 55.5 90.0
West Midlands 140.7 45.2 91.1
Mersey (NHS Trust) 147.7 68.1 95.4
Greater Manchester 165.4 60.5 97.4