NHS staff in England dealt with more than 85,000 call-outs to life-threatening conditions in July – the highest number since records began.
New data from NHS England has shown that there were 85,397 ambulance call outs last month for life-threatening conditions such as cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest.
He also mentioned that certain medication does not respond well to hot weather as it can impact the body's thermal regulation. But, due to the handover delay – getting patients from an ambulance and into the hospital – patients' initial condition may deteriorate and thus enter Category One status. For the most urgent call-outs – Category One – average response times in England were the joint worst on record at nine minutes and 35 seconds, matching the previous record set in March.Statistics have shown that for Category Two emergencies, people waited an average of 59 minutes and 55 seconds for an ambulance in July, with the target being an average of 18 minutes.
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