Three-hour ambulance wait for potential stroke patients in Southern Health Trust region is part of a 'much wider system challenge'

Three-hour ambulance wait for potential stroke patients in Southern Health Trust region is part of a 'much wider system challenge'

People experiencing stroke symptoms within the Southern Health Trust recently had to wait more than three hours for paramedics to reach them, it’s been revealed.

Handover delays at crisis point with stroke patients ‘waiting two hours 29 minutes’ for ambulance last week

Ambulance handover delays have reached crisis point, with stroke patients having to wait two hours and 29 minutes on average for an ambulance. And while the response time is nowhere near the 18-minute target for this category of patients, the situation was even worse only a few weeks ago, when stroke patients had to wait over three hours for paramedics to reach them. The information was revealed by Interim Chief Executive of the NI Ambulance Ser…

Ambulance delays ‘cannot be the new normal’ as stroke & chest pain patients wait nearly 2.5 hours

Interim Chief Executive of the NI Ambulance Service (NIAS), Maxine Paterson Chest pain and stroke patients in Northern Ireland waited an average of two hours and 29 minutes for an ambulance last week, according to figures revealed by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS). The stark statistics were disclosed by NIAS Interim Chief Executive Maxine Paterson at last Thursday’s (29 January) board meeting of the Southern Health and Social Care…