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Council calls for faster emergency response times
THE ambulance service re- sponsible for serving the Cotswolds is not fit for pur- pose, according to the leader of the district council. Councillor Lynden Stowe made the remarks at a Cotswold District Council (CDC) meeting after Cotswold Lib Dem leader Cllr Paul Hodgkinson proposed a mo- tion calling on the council to send a message to the ambu- lance service to improve its response times. The national target for 999 callouts is that 75 per cent of patients should be responded to within the specified time
of eight minutes. However, thenewfigures re-
veal that South Western Am- bulance Service (SWAS) was missing that target by more than 30 per cent, with just 46 per cent of Cotswold patients being responded to within that time. In Cheltenham and Glouces-
ter, 94 per cent and 88 per cent of emergency patients, re- spectively, receive an ambu- lance within the eight minute timeframe. “The latest figures are very
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district has a worse record than the Cotswolds,” Cllr Hodgkinson told the council. He added: “I am calling on
the council to put pressure on the ambulance service to hit its target in the Cotswolds. By making a united stand, we can send a clear message that we deserve better.” Cllr Hodgkinson drew at- tention to a man from Sid- dington who collapsed on the street and had to wait on the pavement for an hour and a half before help arrived. Last year Cotswold MP
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said he would be raising the mat- ter with health ministers if South Western Ambulance did not improve its service. He said: “The ambulance
provision appears to be sim- ply not good enough for my constituents and I will be demanding an urgent expla- nation from the chief execu- tive.” Cllr Joe Harris told mem-
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bers that the performance of the service had slipped fol- lowing its merger withSWAS and that a county-based unit was needed. Members from CDC’s dif- ferent political parties voted unanimously in favour of taking the issue up with the head of the ambulance ser- vice. A spokesman for SWAS
said rural areas such as the Cotswolds had always repre- sented a challenge in terms of response times. He said: “The average time
for an ambulance resource to arrive at the scene of a RED emergency call is 9.44 min- utes within the Cotswolds, we are working hard to bring this within the required eight minute standard.”
See Page 8 MPbacks vaccine drive
MP Neil Carmichael and Meningitis Now chief executive Sue Davie
STROUD MP Neil Carmichael is backing a campaign to give all babies the meningitis B vaccine after meeting families who have been left devastated by the disease. Mr Carmichael joined MPs
from all parties and families directly affected by meningitis, and has called on the govern- ment to make the vaccine available free on the NHS. The campaign is being led by
Stroud based Meningitis Now, the UK’s largest meningitis charity. “The lives of many families in
my constituency have been turned upside down by this disease,” said Mr Carmichael. “This vaccine has the poten-
tial to save lives every week and that’s why I’m supporting Meningitis Now and asking the government to make the right choice – bring in the vaccine now.” Meningitis Now chief execu-
tive Sue Davie said: “I want to thank Neil Carmichael for his support and for taking time out to meet families affected by meningitis.
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