| Heading: |
Strokes: Ambulance Services |
| Question ID: |
1806899 |
| UIN: |
55332 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4776 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Munira Wilson
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| Asking Member handle: |
munirawilson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@munirawilson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including strokes as a Category 1 ambulance call. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-06 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
No such assessment has been made. NHS England’s guidance recommends ambulance services increase the clinical assessment of 999 calls, including increasing the proportion of Category 2 calls, which are those calls classified as an “emergency” and which inc... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |