Call out on or near the SW Coastpath

Dear Mick Cooke,

I refer to the acknowledgement on 11 February 2011 of your request for
information about incidents on or by the South West Coastpath in Devon,
Cornwall and Somerset under the provisions of the Freedom of Information
Act.

I am pleased to now be in a position to respond to your request and
apologise for the delay in completing our response to your first request.

Information requested in Our response
your first request (FoI
533)
How many call outs and/or 86 call outs in Jan
incidents on or by the 2008 to Jan 2011 (as
South West Coast path in per the time period of
Devon, Cornwall, Somerset your second request)
did the SW ambulance
service respond to from This information is
Jan 2008 to Dec 2010. based on number of
incidents that had the
free text ‘coast
path’ somewhere in
the address as
requested. As
previously explained
this will be an
under-recording of the
number of incidents on
or near the cost path
as they will not all
have this phrase within
the address.
How many had Coastguard Unknown – we do not
Attendance/Assistance? record this information
in a searchable format.
Do you have a record of Of the 86 callouts
how many of the casualties there were 22 where a
needed to be airlifted? casualty was airlifted
– there would
normally be only 1
casualty airlifted per
call out.
Information requested in
your second request (FoI
539)
Could you let me know what The number of call outs
areas on The South West to the nearest
Coast path had the most city/town/village
incidents in the period of recorded in the
Jan 2008 to Jan 2011 that incident address:
involved SW Ambulance
response. Barnstaple 1
Bideford 3
Boscastle 1
Braunton 1
Bridgwater 1
Brixham 3
Bude 2
Budleigh Salterton 2
Dartmouth 1
Dawlish 1
Delabole 1
Helston 3
Ilfracombe 4
Kingsbridge 4
Looe 4
Lynmouth 3
Minehead 1
Newquay 2
Padstow 3
Penzance 10
Plymouth 4
Port Isaac 2
Seaton 2
Sidmouth 2
St Austell 2
St Ives 11
Teignmouth 1
Tintagel 3
Torquay 1
Truro 2
Wadebridge 2
Weston-super-Mare 1
Woolacombe 2
Total 86

We are aware this response will automatically be published. In view of
this, we have considered whether we would give permission for re-use of
this information in this way if this had been sought as required under the
Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations. We confirm our permission
for this by responding to this e-mail address.

I trust this provides you with the information you sought but please feel
free to contact me if you require further clarification of the information
provided, or to discuss any aspect of our response to your request.
However, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you also have the
right to make use of the following complaints procedures:

· In the first instance you may write to the Chief Executive of
this Trust

Mr Ken Wenman

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Abbey Court

Eagle Way

Exeter EX2 7HY

Mr Wenman will then either make arrangements for your complaint to be
reviewed and for the outcome to be communicated to you, or will convene a
panel of Trust Directors to consider an appeal against a decision to
withhold information.

· If you are unhappy with the response to your complaint, or
findings of the Panel, you can write to the Information Commissioner at:

Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire. SK9 5AF

Tel: 01625 545 700

Fax: 01625 524 510

Yours sincerely

Mary Bartlett

Mary Bartlett | Information Governance Project Specialist

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust
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