How many times an ambulance has failed to reach a patient within an hour of being summoned in each of the last eight years in (a) Lanarkshi…

The figures requested are listedin the following tables. The Scottish Ambulance Service rolled out a priority baseddispatch system during 2002-04, so the figures from 2000-03 relate to all accidentand emergency (A&E) incidents and the figures from 2003-06 relate to CategoryA (life-threatening) and Category B (serious but not life-threatening) calls. CategoryB responses include calls transferred from GPs, hospitals or NHS 24 where the patienthas already received clinical intervention and requires to be taken to hospitalor, in some cases, to another hospital. The current average response time acrossScotland for Category A calls is 8.4 minutes.
Ayrshire
| Number of A&E Incidents Which Took Over an Hour to Respond to
| Total A&E Incidents for the Year
| Proportion of Responses Over 1 Hour

1999-2000
| 2
| 19,481
| 0.010%

2000-01
| 7
| 19,904
| 0.035%

2001-02
| 3
| 22,051
| 0.014%

2002-03
| 4
| 22,706
| 0.018%


Ayrshire
| Number of Cat A Incidents which Took Over an Hour to Respond to
| Number of Cat B Incidents which Took Over an Hour to Respond to
| Total A&E Incidents for the Year
| Proportion of Responses over 1 Hour

2003-04
| 1
| 0
| 24,918
| 0.004%

2004-05
| 0
| 3
| 24,956
| 0.012%

2005-06
| 1
| 6
| 25,756
| 0.027%


Lanarkshire
| Number of A&E Incidents which Took Over an Hour to Respond to
| Total A&E Incidents for the Year
| Proportion of Responses Over 1 Hour

1999-2000
| 4
| 28,016
|