Are Ambulances Getting Slower?

In 2015 Totally Communications created an interactive map of ambulance response times inward the UK. The Ambulance Response Times map shows the median response times for ambulances responding to 'life threatening calls' inward every postcode expanse inward the UK.

The map was created from Freedom of Information requests sent to each Ambulance Trust inward the UK. The response times shown on the map are from 2011 to 2014. These times are forthwith out of date. Fortunately the BBC has today released its ain BBC Ambulance Response Times Map. The BBC's map was likewise created using information from Freedom of Information requests to become the times that ambulances cause got to gain patients.


The BBC's novel map patently provides to a greater extent than up-to-date information on local ambulance response times. It likewise way that nosotros tin laissez passer on the axe compare the 2 maps to come across where ambulance response times are getting faster in addition to where they are becoming slower. The BBC says that Wells-next-the-Sea has the longest ambulance response charge per unit of measurement inward the UK. According to the BBC's map the average response fourth dimension is 21 minutes iv seconds inward Wells-next-the-Sea. This is truly a pregnant improvement since 2014. On the Totally Communications map the response fourth dimension for ambulances inward the expanse was 29 minutes iv seconds.

The 2nd longest response time, according to the BBC map, was inward Chichester (RH14). Here the average response fourth dimension is xx minutes 2 seconds. This is significantly longer than inward 2014. The Totally Communications map shows a response fourth dimension of fourteen minutes 27 seconds. The BBC doesn't tell which postcode expanse inward the Britain had the fastest ambulance response fourth dimension merely does Federal Reserve annotation that urban areas tend to cause got faster response times than rural areas. Newham inward London has an ambulance response fourth dimension of half-dozen minutes 21 seconds. This is faster than the Britain average of vii minutes 41 seconds. The fourth dimension is likewise a petty faster than the response fourth dimension inward Newham inward 2014, which was vii seconds slower at half-dozen minutes 28 seconds.

You tin laissez passer on the axe notice out how fast, on average, ambulances response to emergency calls inward your expanse past times entering your postcode into the BBC's map. You tin laissez passer on the axe in addition to thence come across if this response fourth dimension is an improvement on 2014 past times entering your postcode into the ambulance response times map created past times Totally Communications.