Josh Smith
15 Jul 2024 · Coroner Jessica Swift · Kingston upon Hull & East Riding
This report repeats 1 earlier warning, and was raised again 1 time later. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. delays in ambulance response
“whilst the Yorkshire Ambulance Service have taken a number of steps within their powers to try to reduce the delays experienced by patients waiting for an ambulance within the community, that those delays continue”
Linked reports
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Earlier report
“Yorkshire Ambulance Service were unable to respond to [the deceased]'s call until 2 hours and 26 minutes had passed. Yorkshire Ambulance Service were on their highest level of escalation at that time with significant delays at hospital handover caused or contributed to the delay in an ambulance being available to [the deceased].”
This report
“Specifically, I was told that the response standards for both Category 1 and Category 2 calls (for the year to date), whilst improved from the time of Mr [name redacted] death, still remain outside of the target response standards (both on average and at the 90th centile).”
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
This report
“delays in this process continue to impact upon the speed of the ambulance response to patients waiting within the community.”
Later report
“There are excessive delays in Ambulance crews being released following attendance at hospital, due to delays in patients being handed over to hospital staff.”