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Written question asked by David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party) on Tuesday, 14 February 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 16 February 2006. It was answered by Shaun Woodward (Labour) on Monday, 27 February 2006 on behalf of the Northern Ireland Office.

Ambulance Service

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average journey time was for ambulances stationed at the Craigavon area hospital to respond to emergency calls in its catchment area for the last period for which figures are available; and on how many occasions this average has been exceeded by more than 50 percent. in each of the last 10 years.
Answer

The information is not available in the format requested. However, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) has advised that, in the month of January 2006, the average response time for ambulances based at Craigavon area hospital was nine minutes and 29 seconds.Prior to 2004, NIAS systems did not support analysis of response times by individual station. Since 2004, the number of times in each calendar year that response times from Craigavon exceeded the average by more than 50 percent, is set out in the following table.

Total calls Number of calls with response time greater than 14 minutes and 15 seconds
2004 2,029 189
2005 2,967 289
2006 233 28

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
53136; 443 c353-4W;443 c353-4W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Ambulance services Emergency calls Standards Craigavon
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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