Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 2 November 2011
494 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health when the report by the Health Service Executive, on foot of Health Information and Quality Authority guidelines on ambulance response times will be published; the reason for the delay in publishing these data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31910/11]
View answerThe Health Information and Quality Authority published "Key Performance Indicators for Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Response Times and Quality Standards" on 19 January 2011. The Standards recommended that the National Ambulance Service collate information on response times for different types of emergency calls by different types of resources (i.e. first responder and conveying vehicle), between January 2011 and June 2011 and January and December 2011 respectively. This is with a view to establishing a baseline of performance, to inform the development of targets in those indicators where a target was yet to be set. HIQA also recommended that response time performance for first responders to Clinical Status 1 (Echo and Delta) calls be published for July onwards, as targets had been published for these standards. The HSE, HIQA and my Department have agreed that this data should be published through the HSE's Performance Monitoring Reporting system and the information has been published on the website: www.hse.ie.
