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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-17588

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many category B calls were attended by Scottish Ambulance Service rapid response units in under 14 minutes in the city of Aberdeen in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S3W-17590

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many category A calls were attended by Scottish Ambulance Service rapid response units in the north east, excluding the city of Aberdeen, in under 14 minutes in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S3W-17579

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) paramedics and (b) technicians were employed to operate ambulances in the north east in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S3W-17576

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many category (a) A, (b) B and (c) C calls double-crewed ambulances in the north east attended in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S3W-17585

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many category A calls were attended by double-crewed ambulances in under eight minutes in the city of Aberdeen in each of the last three years.

The national response time target for category A calls (life threatening) across mainland Scotland is that, by March 2009, 75% of all incidents should be reached within eight minutes.

For the city of Aberdeen, category A performance is set out in the following table. Detail about which type of vehicles responded to calls is an operational matter for the Scottish Ambulance Service.

	Total Category A Incidents	Total Met within 8 Minutes	Category A %
2005-06	5,513	4,811	87.3%
2006-07	5,174	4,444	85.9%
2007-08	6,293	5,734	91.1%

Notes:

*Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service

**City of Aberdeen is defined as postcode sectors AB10, AB11, AB13, AB14, AB15, AB16, AB22, AB23, AB24, AB25.

Question reference: S3W-17592

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many new (a) ambulances, (b) Rapid Response Unit vehicles and (c) paramedic bikes were purchased by the Scottish Ambulance Service for the north east in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S3W-17586

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many category B calls were attended by double-crewed ambulances in under 14 minutes in the city of Aberdeen in each of the last three years.

The national response time target for category B calls (serious but not life threatening) across mainland Scotland is that, by March 2009, 95% of all incidents should be reached within 14, 19 or 21 minutes depending on population density. For the NHS Grampian area, the target is 21 minutes.

For the city of Aberdeen, category B performance is set out in the following table. Detail about which type of vehicles responded to calls is an operational matter for the Scottish Ambulance Service.

	Total Category B Incidents	Total Met within 21 Minutes	Category B %
2005-06	7,050	7,008	99.4%
2006-07	8,865	8,692	98.0%
2007-08	8,562	8,444	98.6%

Notes:

*Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service

**City of Aberdeen is defined as postcode sectors AB10, AB11, AB13, AB14, AB15, AB16, AB22, AB23, AB24, AB25.

Question reference: S3W-17591

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many category A calls were received in the north east for which the first response dispatched was (a) a doubled-crewed ambulance, (b) a single-crewed ambulance, (c) a Rapid Response Unit, (d) the Special Operations Response Team or (e) a double-crewed ambulance and Rapid Response Unit simultaneously in each of the last three years

Question reference: S3W-17570

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents Scottish Ambulance Service rapid response units from the north east (a) were called to and (b) attended in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S3W-17571

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many ambulance (a) paramedics and (b) technicians are employed in the north east, not including paramedics and technicians in the Scottish Ambulance Service Special Operations Response Team.

The total number of paramedics and technicians employed within the (former) north east operating division, which comprises NHS Grampian, NHS Shetland and NHS Orkney, as at 11 November 2008 is set out below. Staff numbers are still recorded under the previous structures.

(a) paramedics “ 117

(b) technicians “ 104.

The Scottish Ambulance Service does not recruit paramedics and technicians to operate a particular vehicle. Once staff are trained and operational they are allocated to vehicles as appropriate to meet operational need.