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| The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 |
| Table 2C5 Ambulance services - patients carried1 and mileage covered; by health board: year ending 31 March 1997 |
Road Ambulance Service |
Ambulance Car Service |
Emergency
Responses |
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Responses |
Total mileage |
Patient |
Mileage |
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High 2 |
Medium 3 |
Sparse 4 |
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Scotland |
2,190,168 |
17,936,081 |
475,205 |
6,121,092 |
104,075 |
105,955 |
34,386 |
% of calls answered within target time |
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91 |
96 |
92 |
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| Argyll & Clyde | 225,727 |
1,599,498 |
16,112 |
218,903 |
- |
96 |
89 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 179,037 |
1,649,490 |
11,839 |
266,819 |
- |
96 |
97 |
| Borders | 66,246 |
760,731 |
5,999 |
197,311 |
- |
- |
94 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 71,313 |
1,053,711 |
5,420 |
273,841 |
- |
95 |
93 |
| Fife | 174,454 |
1,347,668 |
23,686 |
422,619 |
- |
97 |
96 |
| Forth Valley | 118,800 |
816,400 |
32,865 |
577,998 |
- |
98 |
86 |
| Grampian | 193,614 |
1,854,597 |
22,222 |
283,498 |
96 |
- |
93 |
| Greater Glasgow | 354,170 |
1,820,820 |
165,816 |
1,182,437 |
88 |
92 |
- |
| Highland | 69,812 |
1,592,537 |
8,731 |
403,375 |
- |
95 |
89 |
| Lanarkshire | 230,948 |
1,616,190 |
79,004 |
971,388 |
- |
98 |
96 |
| Lothian | 296,804 |
1,907,680 |
55,300 |
663,926 |
95 |
95 |
- |
| Orkney | 3,038 |
43,779 |
84 |
2,941 |
- |
- |
83 |
| Shetland | 8,197 |
60,361 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
78 |
| Tayside | 185,879 |
1,635,980 |
44,898 |
577,210 |
95 |
92 |
92 |
| Western Isles | 12,129 |
176,639 |
3,229 |
78,826 |
- |
- |
87 |
Source: Scottish Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
| 1 Number of patients carried is measured by the number of persons carried in one direction. |
| 2 High density: more than 3 people per acre; target time is 14 minutes. |
| 3 Medium density: between 0.5 and 3 people per acre; target time is 18 minutes. |
| 4 Sparse density: less than 0.5 people per acre; target time is 21 minutes. |
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