Ambulance Service reduces status to “moderate pressure”

This status is the second of four levels of alert in the national framework designed to maintain an effective and safe operational and clinical response for the UK’s ambulance services. NEAS has been operating at level three “severe pressure” since 8 December 2015 as its response standards to potentially life-threatening incidents deteriorated below the national target of eight minutes in 75% of all incidents. Paul Liversidge, NEAS chief operating officer, said: “The extreme pressures we have experienced ...