Re:Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
by aix1 on Monday March 13, 2023 @12:38PM
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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):
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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.
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So the 48-hour average waiting time stat does seem completely made up.
<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 stat does seem completely made up.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/01/ambulance-wa...