Issue - meetings

Since September 2016, SWASFT Performance in Wiltshire have been presented to the Health Select Committee in the form of annual reports to the Committee on the performance of the ambulance service in Wiltshire. The first edition was presented at the Health Select Committee on 27 September 2016.

The committee has invited SWASFT to present on the following:

a. Progress to date and planned activities in the Trust’s estate review – including outcomes of the 2015/16 audit focusing on impact on Wiltshire, including Amesbury ambulance station.

b. Update on service delivery in terms of performance, projects and activity (last received in September 2017), including work planned for 2019/20

c. Response times, especially in rural areas.

A performance report from SWASFT is included, as well as a letter informing stakeholders of SWASFT’s plan to significantly increase the number of people and vehicle resources across the South West.

The committee had invited SWASFT to present on; the Trust’s estate review, performance and response times.

Paul Birkett-Wendes, County Commander, Wiltshire and BANES

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust and Emma Smith, Interim Head of Urgent Care, NHS Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group reported; a funding uplift, work on reducing demand at source, the absence of plans to change the estate and attainment of Category 1 response time targets.

The debate that followed addressed ambulance stations, access to patient records, confidence in reducing demand and the financial consequences of not achieving reduced demand, the opportunity to rationalise resources across partners, the need for like-for-like comparisons in performance management and use of defibrillators.

Resolved

For the CCG and the council to consider efficiency processes and for the outcome of these conversations to be reported to the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Health Select Committee.

To receive a performance report from SWASFT in a year’s time. It would be hoped that it would be in the same format as the report received today but including clear targets for the different categories

To request that the following information is provided to the committee as soon as available:

like for like comparison for April last year

split the analysis by geographical locations