Peter Scott

“During the inquest evidence was given that ambulance availability is being jeopardised by crews being delayed at hospital when handing patients over to Accident and Emergency staff”

“Consideration should be given to strategies to improve handover times at hospitals.”

“I remain very concerned about resource issues for this ambulance service. I raised similar concerns in a Prevention of Future Deaths Report”

“The shortage of double crewed ambulances and fast response vehicles in the Northampton Division.”

“I was advised that EMAS has had to invoke such a Plan (to at least level 3) for 9 out of the last 12 months.”

“there is a risk of future death if urgent transfers are not available to acutely ill patients due to resourcing issues.”

“I remain very concerned about resource issues for this ambulance service.”

“I am concerned that there are insufficient ambulance service resources to meet the needs of the City of Milton Keynes.”

“I remain very concerned about resource issues for this ambulance service.”

“continuing lack of sufficient ambulance resource in Suffolk will lead to future loss of life”

“Finally, I was made aware that one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“My concern here Is that handover delays are impacting upon response times in respect of patients requiring emergency treatment &/or conveyance to hospital.”

“Finally, I was made aware that one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“The target for hospital staff to take responsibility for the care of patients from ambulance crew is within 15 minutes of the ambulance arriving at an Emergency Department.”

“I remain very concerned about resource issues for this ambulance service.”

“YAS were not resourced to respond to the number of emergency calls.”

“I remain very concerned about resource issues for this ambulance service. I raised similar concerns in a Prevention of Future Deaths Report”

“There was 3 available ambulance resource within the sector at that point in time with 54 Category 2 and 43 Category 3 cases awaiting resource allocation”

“Finally, I was made aware that one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“(2) The Inquest heard that EMAS was unable to meet mean response standards at the time of the 999 call. They had entered a sustained period where demand was outstripping the resources they had available. This was worsened by the fact that what resources they did have were being delayed at hospitals due to lengthy hospital handovers at the Accident and Emergency departments.”

“Consideration should be given to strategies to improve handover times at hospitals.”

“The waiting times for ambulances to hand over patients at Hull Royal Infirmary were excessive that day leading to 160 hours of lost ambulance time.”

“Finally, I was made aware that one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“The delay in an ambulance attending patients due to the unavailability of ambulances. This delay being significantly contributed to by the handover delays in hospitals.”

“I remain very concerned about resource issues for this ambulance service.”

“There is insufficient Ambulance Service availability/resource to enable Ambulances to attend to patients in a timely manner and in accordance with relevant target attendance times.”

“Finally, I was made aware that one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“Response times for ambulances attending acute medical incidents continue to be impacted by severe delays in patient handovers at acute hospitals preventing ambulances and their crews returning to service.”

“Finally, I was made aware that one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“However delays in ambulances clearing ED was still having a very significant impact on their ability to respond to calls including category 2 calls such as the one for Mr [name redacted].”

“one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“I understand that nationally, the target time for handover from ambulance to hospital staff is 15 minutes.”

“Finally, I was made aware that one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“3. Ambulance handover delays affecting emergency availability Prolonged ambulance handover times at local hospitals were a significant factor in no ambulance being available at the time help was sought, reducing emergency response capacity during periods of high demand.”

“Finally, I was made aware that one of the key problems in ensuring ambulance availability is delayed handover of patients at hospitals.”

“Ambulance handover delays affecting emergency availability Prolonged ambulance handover times at local hospitals were a significant factor in no ambulance being available at the time help was sought, reducing emergency response capacity during periods of high demand.”