a range of measures to improve performance, say November's performance has been better. In October, although patients requiring ' category one' care - for life-threatening injuries and accidents - were responded to in an average of just over eight minutes, this was still above the seven-minute target and higher than last year's average.
However, figures for 'category two' call-outs - emergency patients suffering, for example, a stroke or chest pain - show an average wait of nearly 46 minutes, much longer than any other service in the country.
That compares to 26 minutes last October. The aim is to respond to these calls within 18 minutes.The England average last month was 25 minutes.
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