AQW 37021/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 06/10/2014
Answered On Date: 14/10/2014
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the timescale for the plans to (i) introduce additional Rapid Response Vehicles to operate alongside emergency ambulances; (ii) to utilise additional deployment points and new Satellite Navigation systems; and (iii) to open a new Regional Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre.

Answer:

These are matters for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust. The Trust has advised that it operates Rapid Response Vehicles and A&E ambulances and is not currently planning to increase these. The Trust also operates satellite navigation software in ambulances and deployment points. A single Regional Emergency Ambulance Control Centre, responsible for prioritising and dispatching responses to emergency 999 calls, is based at ambulance headquarters in Knockbracken Healthcare Park, Belfast.

There are no further plans at present in respect of these areas