Ambulance Response Time Failures Due To Cutbacks - Claim

Ambulance response time failures due to cutbacks - claim

A senior official at the National Ambulance Service says target times can be a 'crude' measure of how their system is performing, but admits there's room for improvement. It follows a 'Prime Time' documentary on RTE last night which highlighted figures showing only a third of life-threatening cases have an ambulance arrive within the designated target time of 8 minutes. But speaking on South East Radio's Morning Mix, a former Wexford ambulance control room staffer blamed cutbacks as the cause of missed response times and that a lack of personnel is crippling the ambulance service.