Written Question · S1W-25216 · Session 1
What percentage of patients in Angus requiring ambulance transfers within one or two hours are not transported within this timeframe.
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of patients in Angus requiring ambulance transfers within one or two hours are not transported within this timeframe.
The answer
There has been an improvement in the performance in response to GPs' urgent calls. These calls mostly concern the admission of patients to hospital following a doctor's home visit. Here the service aim to transfer 95% of such requests to hospital within 15 minutes of the time agreed with the doctor, which might typically be two or three hours from the time the request is made. In Angus the service is currently transferring 90.7% of such cases to hospital within 15 minutes
- an improvement of 2% on the previous reporting period.
- an improvement of 2% on the previous reporting period.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-25216 by reference.