Category 2 incidents were responded to in 41 minutes on average, against an 18-minute target.
For Category 2 incidents, which include patients suffering burns, epilepsy and strokes, the target is 18 minutes - but the average wait in the county between April and June was 41 minutes.ambulances queueing outside Gloucestershire Royal HospitalThe NHS Integrated Care Board said it recognised people were waiting longer than they should be but said response times had recovered to a more stable position.
It took ambulances an average of 132 minutes to get to someone for Category 3 incidents - such as early stages of labour - against a target of 120 minutes The data also showed response times had got worse in all three categories, when compared to the previous three months.Councillor Paul Hodgkinson, who sits on Gloucestershire County Council's health scrutiny committee, said: "This whole thing is going round in circles, it's not getting better."
"We need reassurance that these figures are going to get significantly better because at the moment they're getting worse."
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