Summary
The Welsh Ambulance Service is officially the worst performing in Britain with the poorest record of responding to life-or-death 999 calls. The ambulance service in Wales is meant to ensure that 60% of all 999, category A, calls are responded to within eight minutes.
In England ambulances are required to respond to 75% of category A calls in that time, a target that Scotland must meet by 2008.See the full content of this document
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Now Welsh Ambulances Rated Worstin Britain
The eight-minute target was set to give patients the best chance of surviving a cardiac arrest. Yet despite Wales having a lower target just 56.7% of all category A calls received by the service in Wales met that.
In South-East Wales the figures are even worse - only 52.4% of emergency callers get an ambulance in the required time.Wales' place at the bottom of the performance tab...See the full content of this document
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