Ambulance Response Times in South Wales West

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:20 pm on 13 December 2017.

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Photo of Caroline Jones Caroline Jones UKIP 2:20, 13 December 2017

Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. We have made great progress in dealing with immediately life-threatening calls, but not so well for amber calls. Last month saw over 35 per cent of amber calls taking more than half an hour for a response in ABMU. The longest wait across Wales was a staggering 23 hours. When you consider that suspected strokes are categorised as amber, and these patients can wait up to 10 hours, this could hamper their recovery. The new response model was supposed to filter out calls that did not need a blue-light response in order to free up resources to respond to those calls that did. Cabinet Secretary, what more can your Government do to ensure that Welsh patients are not waiting up to a day for an ambulance?