Quote Originally Posted by pipster View Post
In Cardiff and Vale health board - they have 9 ambulances and 2 paramedic first responder vehicles - that is all (data from a freedom of information request).

Welsh Ambulance Service service level agreement states that ANY code red call should be on the scene in under 8 minutes at least 90% of the time. In December 2022 that attendance figure was down to 46% (which is terrible) and it's been that bad for a while

There was one code red call that came from Cathedral road in Feb 2023 where the Welsh Ambulance Service actually sent 2 paramedic cars and an Ambulance - ie approx 25% of every vehicle resource we have available was sent out for this one call.
When I had my Cardiac Arrest there were I've been told ( I wasn't taking much notice myself !!!) a first responder vehicle, another 4×4, an Ambulance and an Air Ambulance ground vehicle outside my house

Looks like I had over a quarter of the available ambulances then!