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Ambulance Services

Volume 184: debated on Monday 28 January 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his written answer of 21 January concerning response times for emergency ambulance services, if he will state the standards applicable to Greater London (a) before and (b) after the relaxations there mentioned.

Since 1974 the response standards applicable to the area covered by the London ambulance service have been:

PercentileMinutes
507
9514
Under the new classification the 50 percentile time is 8 minutes; the 95 percentile time is unchanged.