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The worst of the worst
Ambulance response times are worse in the county than anywhere else in the East Midlands.
New figures show people calling 999 from five neighbouring counties are far more likely to get an ambulance within eight minutes than those in Northamptonshire.
In the final four months of 2011 just over two thirds of patients in life-threatening conditions in this county were reached in the target time.
It means the county is being given a worse service than any other served by East Midlands Ambulance Service. The service itself has the slowest emergency ambulance response times in the country.
The situation has got so bad that the chief executive of the service has called for a report to find out what is going wrong.
He has also admitted improvements are needed.
Poor relation of he ambulance service - read more in today’s Evening Telegraph
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fedupwithitallaswell
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 12:11 AMI thought the fire brigade were helping with this as well by sending fire engines to ambulance calls. Is this not working either?
Andy B corby
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10:24 PMProbably all out on shouts from waste of time injury's from people who dont really need an ambulance, then get taken to A&E sit there for 5 hours taken up more time whilst the real injured dont get seen too.
ruby123
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 07:17 PMSo what is the average response time in Northants? If the target time is 8 minutes, what did they miss this by and why? Is it lack of ambulance stations or staff? Do the other counties send out a paramedic on a motorbike in the first instance? This article does not really tell us much can we have some more substance ET please?
Mark Dragilocevic
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 06:00 PMThis is not the time or place to make petty political points, Baldegale. Ambulance response times worsened under Labour and the Coalition hasn't much improved them.
iamyourmaster
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 04:21 PM@baldegale What?
baldegale
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 02:42 PMDavid Cameron Said The NHS is safe in my Hands Well I am not too Sure it is as Hospital waiting time are up Waiting for a Amblance time is up And when they get you to Hospital there no staff there as Mr Cameron Has put them all on the dole ???Bring in the Amry Sorry He putting them on the dole too
il Capitano
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 02:24 PMThey seem to prefer an army of young people masquerading as 'a&e clinical students'. There are tonnes of them in northampton. There must be something wrong with the service if northants is the worst in the country. its not exactly a remote county nor overly congested.
darushNN10
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 01:35 PMAre staff levels anything to do with this? Better not be, they don't seem to want to take people on. I applied a while ago, got through the paper sift, took the exams, and passed. But then it was decided my handwriting was not good enough. Not the spelling or grammer, just the handwrititng itself. Since then I have offered to thelp in other ways, I have tried to get a CFR scheme going in Rushden but get no help with that either.
Eagle eye
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 01:08 PMSurely the CEO should be the one to no what's going wrong !!!! Why ask for report from others who are not earning 100k +
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