Drivers are protesting across the country today over high fuel prices
The East Midlands Ambulance Service, which covers Lincolnshire, is missing every response time target, with hospital handover times causing severe delays.
East Midlands Ambulance Service says they are under “immense pressure” and aim to prioritise the most seriously ill. It takes EMAS crews an average time of just under nine minutes to respond to Category 1 life-threatening calls, despite the target being seven minutes.Category 2 emergency would wait an average of over three-quarters of an hour – more than double the targetFor Category 3 and 4 EMAS aims to get to 90% of patients within two and five hours respectively. However,The crisis has been partly attributed to handover delays which are forcing ambulances to wait for hours outside hospitals.
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