Sentence examples for on ambulance response from inspiring English sources

But a number of other key targets were missed by the health service – including on ambulance response times and cancer waiting times.

The new indicators are announced on the day the latest statistics on ambulance response times are due to be published.

During the period under study: Wales had the worst performance of any UK nation on urgent ambulance response times.

"Instead of focusing resources on improving ambulance response times, after nearly two years of missed targets, Labour's response is to discuss scrapping targets and rebranding.

Throughout the year, the Welsh government has faced criticism over the performance of the health service for failure to meet its own targets on: urgent ambulance response times.

"The trust is concerned that pressure across all hospitals in Wales has a direct impact on the ambulance response that is able to be provided to patients who call 999 for our help.

But some of the targets it set out for the health service on waiting times, ambulance response times, access to diagnostic tests still aren't being met.

Its NHS therefore has to work harder and, as the Nuffield Trust has recently concluded, its record on some totemic targets, notably ambulance response times, is worse than in England.

So in an attempt to be objective, I think it would be difficult for anybody to argue - on certain measures such as ambulance response times and waiting times for operations along for diagnostic tests and therapies there does appear to be a performance gap - despite difficulties in comparing the data.

"(Labour leader) Ed Miliband has used the example of 'compare and contrast', and I think it is perfectly reasonable to point out we don't have a cancer drugs fund here in Wales and some of the most disappointing ambulance response times on record," he said.

Emergency Medical Dispatchers (EMDs) use this system to categorise ambulance response and decide on the level of medical care sent.