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Carl Baker
November 15, 2023
National Health Service (UK)

"Ambulance response times and demand

  • There are four categories of severity for ambulance calls, as follows. Each has a different response time standard:
     
    Category 1: An immediate response to a life-threatening condition, such 
    as cardiac or respiratory arrest...

Demand for ambulance services

In the last two years the number of category 1 ambulance incidents (the most serious category) has increased.

In October 2023 there were 2,688 category 1 ambulance incidents every day on average – up from 1,986 per day in October 2019."

Ambulance calls per NHS

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