People in some parts of the country are having to wait, on average, more than three minutes longer for an ambulance to arrive when they are facing a life-threatening emergency, the Public Accounts Committee finds.
Patients in need of urgent medical attention are still subject to a postcode lottery where the quality of care depends on where they live, MPs have warned. There are still wide variations in ambulance response times depending on region, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee said, as they found performances in key services had fallen 'far below the standard the NHS says patients should expect and receive'.
The length of stay in the worst-performing areas for discharging medically fit patients is more than double that of the best-performing areas, according to the report. 'Not enough being done to address the systemic issues with discharges that lie within the gift of the NHS and its hospitals, and which cannot be blamed on external factors,' the MPs said.
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