Ambulance waiting times are still short of NHS targets, despite having fallen over the last month. Ambulances took an average of nine minutes and eight seconds to respond to category one calls - those for life-threatening injuries - in August in England.
That’s down from nine minutes and 35 seconds in July. However, it’s longer than the seven-minute target set by the NHS. Category two calls, which cover things like strokes, were responded to in an average of 42 minutes and 44 seconds, well short of the 18-minute target.
Category three calls, meanwhile, were dealt with in an average of two hours 16 minutes, compared to a target of two hours, and category four calls were responded to within an average of two hours 56 minutes, compared to a target of three hours.
