The HSE has released details of ambulance response times nationwide for the last three years.
There has been an increase in ambulance response times in both the South and West(covering south and north Tipperary) of the country which Deputy Martin Browne calls “worrying and dangerous.”
He called on the Government to publish and fund a multi-annual workforce plan to double the number of paramedics and to increase both training and retention in the service.
The South region which includes South Tipperary reports that the percentage of life-threatening incidents responded to within the target of 19 minutes has fallen from 73% in December 2019 to 61% in December 2022 for cardiac and respiratory arrest, and from 47% to just 28% for other life-threatening incidents.
For the West Region which includes North Tipperary, the percentage of life-threatening incidents responded to within the target of 19 minutes has fallen from 69% in December 2019 to 59% in December 2022 for cardiac and respiratory arrest, and from 54% to just 36% for other life- threatening incidents.
