What the current average ambulance response time is for heart attack victims in Angus that do not receive paramedic-led thrombolysis from t…

Paramedic-led thrombolysis is not only provided by the rapid/cardiac response unit, which covers the whole of the Angus area, but also by frontline paramedics based at Montrose and Brechin ambulance stations, who cover their respective areas.During the period 1 June 2002 to 31 August 2002, a total of 123 patients suffering from chest pains were attended to by the Ambulance Service in Angus. 47 were attended to by an accident and emergency ambulance and received thrombolytic treatment from a paramedic. The average response time for these cases was 7.9 minutes. The remaining 76 patients were attended to by the cardiac response unit whose average response time was 9.3 minutes.