Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 22616

Ambulance Services: Standards

Tabled: 8 January 2025
Answered: 14 January 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of ambulance waiting times over the 2024-25 Christmas and new year period.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Ambulance response times have been below the high standards that patients should expect in recent years. The Government has committed to supporting the National Health Service to improve performance and achieve the standards set out in the NHS Constitutio...
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