Rural ambulance waiting times unacceptable: Suffolk MPs
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Two MPs in Suffolk have criticised the ambulance service for achieving less than 30% success in response time targets in a number of rural locations in their constituencies in the county. The amazing response of a spokesman for the service is that these are regional targets and they are being exceeded in the urban parts of the region!
He further goes on to moan that delivering a 75% rate for all locations including rural places would cost a further £80 million per year. Now I am sure that there are some very imaginative solutions to this issue being delivered in other rural counties.
Just to my knowledge these involve: the first responder network, fire crews with defribulators and careful deployment of paramedics. Are all these things all already happening in Suffolk with me having got the wrong end of the stick?