HC Deb 01 February 1994 vol 236 cc601-2W
Mr. David Porter

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients from the Great Yarmouth and Waveney health district were treated in hospitals outside the district in the last year in which figures are available; and how many out-of-district patients were treated within the Anglian Harbours hospital trust and the James Paget hospital.

Mr. Sackville

My hon. Friend may wish to Contact Dr. Ronald Duncan, Mrs. Kath Currie and Mr. John Wells, chairmen of the Great Yarmouth and Waveney health

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 97.0
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
authority, Anglian Harbours national health service trust and the James Paget hospital trust respectively, for this information.