Ambulances Missing Target for Helping Seriously Ill Patients ; Service Blames the Swine Flu and Staff Shortage for Dip in Performance Levels
Derby Evening Telegraph › October 14, 2009
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EAST Midlands Ambulance Service is being monitored after failing to meet a target to get help to patients with life-threatening health problems.
The service aims to reach 75% of its most seriously ill patients within eight minutes of receiving a 999 call.See the full content of this document
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Ambulances Missing Target for Helping Seriously Ill Patients ; Service Blames the Swine Flu and Staff Shortage for Dip in Performance Levels
These are classed as Category A calls, which involve "immediately life-threatening conditions".
But in Derbyshire, that figure was 72.8% in April...See the full content of this document
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