Ambulance Quality Indicators – monthly update for England

4 May 2012 03:51 PM

Department of Health have recently released statistics on Ambulance Quality Indicators.

Ambulance System Indicators; Category A 8 minute response time, category A 19 minute response time, call abandonment rate, re-contact rate following discharge of care, time to answer call, time to treatment, ambulance calls closed with telephone advice or managed without transport to A&E, ambulance emergency journeys; for period March 2012.

Ambulance Clinical Outcomes; Outcome from cardiac arrest – return of spontaneous circulation, outcome from acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), outcome from stroke for ambulance patients, outcome from cardiac arrest – survival to discharge; for period December 2011.

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