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Welsh ambulance response target may change after failures.

Whether the current eight-minute red targets stays, goes or is changed, we simply don’t know yet. That’ll be for the review to take a view on.

But I think we will see in any new targets more emphasis, perhaps not just on time – but on the quality of care a patient eventually gets.

Are patients they getting the right care and assessments on the phone?

Do patients with strokes get to the right place first time, similarly patients with heart problems?

Are the people making the 999 call given effective instructions about CPR?

So we might see more of those kind of quality measures.

But one of the biggest challenges for the ambulance service is how many crews end up being stuck outside full A&E departments.

I’ve spoken to staff, who have been entirely frustrated because they’ve had to spend an entire shift stuck and unable to respond to any new 999 calls in the community.

We’re told this review won’t be looking at setting any specific targets for hospitals and health boards to reduce these handover delays.

And some might argue it’ll be almost impossible to improve ambulance performance unless that issue is addressed.


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