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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

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...