THE ambulance service for Nottinghamshire has failed to meet its targets for responding to the most serious emergency calls.
East Midlands Ambulance Service is supposed to respond to Red1 and Red2 calls - which include people having strokes and heart attacks - within eight minutes 75 per cent of the time.
But newly released figures show the service only hit their target time for 73 per cent of 999 calls. In Nottinghamshire, 74 per cent of Red1 calls and 72 per cent of Red2 calls were responded to within the target time. Elsewhere, ambulances reached patients in Lincolnshire within target times but performance dropping significantly in Northamptonshire.
In October of last year the service was called to a risk summit with local health chiefs after concerns were raised over performance and patient safety. Since then performance levels have improved with the service hitting all targets for the first quarter of this financial year.
The service is expected to discuss plans for a restructure of ambulance stations across the East Midlands at a private board meeting on October 30.
