He called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to admit the NHS is “in crisis”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer shone a light on the state of ambulance waiting times in Northamptonshire during a speech in Parliament on Wednesday. .
Sir Keir said it would take around two hours and 20 minutes to arrive in Northampton. Addressing the House of Commons, he said: "If our heart attack victim had called for an ambulance at 12.03pm... if they were in Northampton it wouldn’t arrive until 2.20pm." Sir Keir began his questioning of the Prime Minister by asking “It’s three minutes past 12. If somebody phones 999 now because they have chest pains and fear it might be a heart attack, when would the Prime Minister expect an ambulance to arrive?”
The Government has targets that say an ambulance should get to any emergency within 18 minutes. However, due to delays in discharging patients and clearing A&E departments, actual response times are currently far longer. According to data from NHS Digital, the average wait time for an ambulance in Northampton is two hours and 17 minutes.
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