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> In my district in the UK, there were occasions when average wait times for an ambulance for a Category 1 incident (eg. person not breathing) reached 48 hours

by aix1 4y ago

> In my district in the UK, there were occasions when average wait times for an ambulance for a Category 1 incident (eg. person not breathing) reached 48 hours last month. This is a pretty shocking number. Where can I read more about this?

netsharc 4y ago
How about a search engine: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ambulance+wait+times+uk&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ambulance+wait+times+uk&ia=web E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance-delay-nhs-strike.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance... The waits are crazy long because hospitals are full, so the ambulances end up outside the hospital entrance for a long time, waiting for a free bed for their patient/passenger.
- nucleardog 4y ago
  Your linked page has no reference to wait times on category 1 calls exceeding 48 hours (nor anything close). Neither do any of the results I clicked through on the _extremely_ helpful SERP link. I did find this page[0] which says, referring to category 1 calls: > In December 2022, the response time crossed 10 minutes, the worst performance on record. So it certainly sounds like an _average_ wait of 48 hours for a category 1 call is not at all grounded in reality. [0]: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/ambulance-response-times#ambulance-response-times-to-life-threatening-situations https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/ambulance-response...
  - aix1 4y ago
    And in terms of average wait times by area, the Guardian published the following data in Dec 2022 (based on a FOI request to ambulance trusts): <quote> For category one calls, the most urgent, where an ambulance is meant to arrive within seven minutes, several areas reported waiting times close to or more than 15 minutes. The longest average wait for such calls was in Mid Devon, with a time of 15 minutes 20 seconds, almost three times as long as the average of 5 minutes and 48 seconds in Hammersmith, west London. </quote> So the 48-hour average waiting time claim does not stand up to scrutiny. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/01/ambulance-waiting-times-england-rural-areas https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/01/ambulance-wa...

by aix1 4y ago

netsharc 4y ago

How about a search engine: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ambulance+wait+times+uk&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ambulance+wait+times+uk&ia=web E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance-delay-nhs-strike.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance... The waits are crazy long because hospitals are full, so the ambulances end up outside the hospital entrance for a long time, waiting for a free bed for their patient/passenger.

nucleardog 4y ago
Your linked page has no reference to wait times on category 1 calls exceeding 48 hours (nor anything close). Neither do any of the results I clicked through on the _extremely_ helpful SERP link. I did find this page[0] which says, referring to category 1 calls: > In December 2022, the response time crossed 10 minutes, the worst performance on record. So it certainly sounds like an _average_ wait of 48 hours for a category 1 call is not at all grounded in reality. [0]: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/ambulance-response-times#ambulance-response-times-to-life-threatening-situations https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/ambulance-response...
- aix1 4y ago
  And in terms of average wait times by area, the Guardian published the following data in Dec 2022 (based on a FOI request to ambulance trusts): <quote> For category one calls, the most urgent, where an ambulance is meant to arrive within seven minutes, several areas reported waiting times close to or more than 15 minutes. The longest average wait for such calls was in Mid Devon, with a time of 15 minutes 20 seconds, almost three times as long as the average of 5 minutes and 48 seconds in Hammersmith, west London. </quote> So the 48-hour average waiting time claim does not stand up to scrutiny. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/01/ambulance-waiting-times-england-rural-areas https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/01/ambulance-wa...