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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, including in the West Midlands
and Birmingham. 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 this additional capacity this year,
alongside the 5,000 additional permanent hospital beds delivered last year to improve
patient flow through hospitals, and reduce ambulance capacity lost to ambulance patient
handover delays.</p><p>Since we published our plan, there have been significant improvements
in ambulance response times, including in the West Midlands. In 2023/24, average Category
2 ambulance response times in the West Midlands were over twelve minutes faster compared
to the previous year, a reduction of 25%.</p>
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