A new investigation by the BBC has revealed that 1 in 16 category two ambulance call-outs are experiencing significant, life-threatening delays.<\/p>\n
Delays are being blamed on under-funding of the NHS, putting pressure not only on the ambulance service itself, but the many other areas of health provision that impact on the service.<\/p>\n
Bed shortages, problems with social care and Accident and Emergency pressures all mean that there are increasing delays in handing over emergency patients on arrival at Accident and Emergency.<\/p>\n
Consequently, whilst category one patients in immediate life-threatening danger continue to experience prompt service, category two patients, such as heart attack, stroke and burns victims, can experience waits of well over an hour before emergency services arrive.<\/p>\n
According to the NHS targets, set in 2017, category two call-outs should be responded to within an average time of 18 minutes.<\/p>\n
Following a Freedom of Information request, the data received by the BBC showed that, between January 2018 and September 2019, more than 4000 category two call-outs per week took more than one hour before the patient was reached.<\/p>\n
The East Midlands service appeared to be under most pressure with more than 12% of category two patients suffering an excessive wait for the ambulance service to arrive.<\/p>\n
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