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Performance

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The table below shows the average response time to life threatening calls by health board area:

NHS Board Area 04/05 (minutes) 05/06 (minutes)
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
     
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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