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<p>Our Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services sets out the
range of measures being taken to achieve our ambition of reducing average Category
2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes, across 2024/25. Further information on the
delivery plan is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/B2034-delivery-plan-for-recovering-urgent-and-emergency-care-services.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/B2034-delivery-plan-for-recovering-urgent-and-emergency-care-services.pdf</a></p><p>Ambulance
trusts received £200 million of additional funding in 2023/24 to increase deployed
hours and reduce response times. We will maintain the improved ambulance service capacity
from this additional funding in 2024/25, alongside the additional 5,000 permanent
hospital beds delivered last year to improve patient flow through accident and emergency,
and reduce ambulance capacity lost due to handover delays.</p><p>There have been significant
improvements in performance across the country, with average Category 2 ambulance
response times in 2023/24 over 13 minutes faster compared to the previous year, a
reduction of over 27%.</p>
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