Written Answers Nos. 1293-1304
1294. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any risk assessment has been conducted regarding the absence of dispatch-time risks on the National Ambulance Service, NAS, risk register, despite ongoing pressures relating to ambulance demand and emergency department handover delays. [37901/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy as soon as possible.
1295. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal maximum acceptable time thresholds between receipt of a 999 call and ambulance resource allocation; and if so, to provide the thresholds applicable to each call category. [37902/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy as soon as possible.
1297. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal analysis has been conducted examining correlations between ambulance dispatch delays and patient deterioration, morbidity, mortality, or adverse clinical outcomes since 2020. [37904/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy as soon as possible.
1298. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any risk assessments have been conducted regarding the inability to achieve historic HIQA ambulance response standards; and whether these risks are currently recorded within any national HSE risk management framework. [37905/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy as soon as possible.
