Dublin ambulance service leaving public at risk, report says

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Dublin City Council opposed release of report it commissioned with HSE that says overlapping services are failing to hit targets for responding to most urgent calls

With a failure to meet performance targets “a reality” for both organisations, current control arrangements for the DFB and the NAS “cannot be allowed to continue in their present configuration”.

Issues around response times have persisted since the report was complete. Last year, barely a quarter of ambulances were being turned around at hospital emergency departments on time, The Irish Times reported, while 56 per cent of Delta calls involving life-threatening emergencies were not responded to within the target time.

A new structure involving the DFB, NAS, HSE, the council and the Department of Health and Housing, Local Government and Heritage has been set up and will have its first meeting this month, he said. The report says the NAS control room should assume responsibility for call-taking and dispatch of all ambulances in Ireland.

 

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