Performance
The table below shows the average response time to life threatening calls by health board area:
| Argyll & Clyde |
9.0 |
8.6 |
| Ayrshire & Arran |
8.6 |
8.3 |
| Borders |
9.2 |
9.4 |
| Dumfries & Galloway |
10.1 |
10.2 |
| Fife |
7.9 |
7.6 |
| Forth Valley |
8.6 |
8.5 |
| Grampian |
7.6 |
7.4 |
| Greater Glasgow |
8.9 |
8.8 |
| Highland |
9.5 |
9.7 |
| Lanarkshire |
9.6 |
9.2 |
| Lothian |
7.9 |
7.8 |
| Orkney |
10.3 |
9.8 |
| Shetland |
13.6 |
12.4 |
| Tayside |
8.2 |
8.0 |
| Western Isles |
10.6 |
11.7 |
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| Scotland |
8.6 |
8.4 |
*All figures except those for NHS Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles are for responses to Category A (life-threatening) calls only. The Islands Boards are average response times to all emergency incidents. Data supplied by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
The Scottish Ambulance Service also treated 13,173 more patients within 8 minutes than it did the previous year.
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