Ambulances Queuing
Dear East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust,
I would like to request the following information.
This request relates to specifically Norfolk.
1) On 28th December 2015 please tell me how many emergency ambulances you had available in Norfolk?
2) Between 1700-2100hrs how many ambulances did you have available to dispatch to Red1/Red2 jobs?
Yours faithfully,
John Anderson
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Dear John
Further to your email dated 31st December 2015, please find the Trust's
response below.
1) On 28th December 2015 please tell me how many emergency ambulances you
had available in Norfolk?
As of 0830 in the morning of the 28th we had confirmed 30 Double Staffed
Ambulance (DSA) on days (of 30 budgeted) and 25 at night (out of 25
budgeted)
Waveney is excluded in the above but as they are half Norfolk, they were
13 of 12 (the Trust was able to put out one more DSA than required) and 8
of 8 respectively.
2) Between 1700-2100hrs how many ambulances did you have available to
dispatch to Red1/Red2 jobs?
The table below gives a breakdown of the number of Double Staff Ambulance
(DSA) vehicles on our scheduling system Global Rostering System (GRS) for
the request time and date. Where the figure is not a whole number it means
that a vehicle only runs for part of the hour for example a 0730-1930
vehicle would be recorded as 0.5 for the hour 1900.
GRS does not reflect staff changes that were made on the day such as
splitting crews, moving staff from/to RRVs. This means that these figures
may not reflect the actual number of vehicles available for Red1/Red2
jobs.
2nd Level 3rd Level Shift Date Crew 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00
Norfolk Central Norfolk 28/12/2015 DSA 22.5 22 21.25 19.5 19
(A&E) Resources (A&E)
West Norfolk 28/12/2015 DSA 14 13 12.5 11 11
Resources (A&E)
Norfolk (A&E) Total 36.5 35 33.8 30.5 30
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From: John Anderson [[FOI #308653 email]]
Sent: 31 December 2015 00:56
To: foi (EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST)
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Ambulances Queuing
Dear East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust,
I would like to request the following information.
This request relates to specifically Norfolk.
1) On 28th December 2015 please tell me how many emergency
ambulances you had available in Norfolk?
2) Between 1700-2100hrs how many ambulances did you have available
to dispatch to Red1/Red2 jobs?
Yours faithfully,
John Anderson
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