Parliament Workbench
Data: Motions & questions to 19 Nov 2026

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.

Answered Asked by Andrew Welsh SNP Lodged 18 Apr 2002

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

Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2002 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

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.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-25216 by reference.