FOI 25-083 Emergency Ambulance Discharges
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-083 Emergency Ambulance Discharges
- Request Date
- 19 Feb 2025
- Response Date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Information Requested
Please could you advise the amount of routine discharges completed by A&E crews (emergency ambulances) from the borders general hospital in the last 3 years, up to date request actioned. If possible, could you total the hours taken to complete these tasks broken down by month.
- Response
Please see the sheet attached detailing the number of emergency ambulance only discharges and total service time in hours from Borders General hospital between 01/04/2022 - 28/02/2025.
It is important to note – A&E vehicles would only be used for hospital discharges where a more appropriate vehicle is not available; this would usually be during nightshift. Hospital discharges are given low-priority and an A&E vehicle will not be diverted away from a higher priority call to attend.
The Scottish Ambulance Service implemented the Clinical Response Model which helps to categorise calls, more information can be found on our website Unscheduled Care Operational Statistics. Calls for hospital discharges that are assigned to A&E vehicles are given a routine category, lowest. If the clinical demand is too high for greater priority incidents, this routine white call would be assigned to a Patient Transport Vehicle when one is available.
The service time is calculated in hours from where a resource has been allocated to the time it is cleared.
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