Ambulance trusts failing to meet response-time targets
June 19th, 2009 | Published in NHS Trusts | 1 Comment
Nearly half of Englands ambulance trusts are taking too long to respond to life-threatening emergencies, a report said today.
Five of the nations 12 NHS ambulance trusts failed to meet their target of reaching 75 per cent of the most serious incidents within eight minutes in 2008-09, the NHS Information Centre found.
And only a third hit targets to arrive at the scene of 95 per cent of serious but not immediately life-threatening incidents within 19 minutes.
Read full article: Mail Online.
November 16th, 2010at 15:41(#)
no matter what people say, paramedics are amazing people. they see so much horible things so we don’t have to, they help us in any possible way, they save our lives, they are ther for us when we need them. All that and there only human, they are always looking for ways to improve all the time. And people still moan especialy the medis, why can’t they wake up and realise that these people saving lifes as a job are only human and can’t do all these impossible things the media set them.