Ambulances told to reach critically-ill patients within 8 minutes
In an ambitious new plan by the Health Information Quality Authority (HIQA), all HSE, private sector and fire brigade ambulances have been given the target of reaching critically-ill patients within eight minutes.
Under the system which is set to be introduced by the second half of the year, a target of 75% of “first responder” call-outs for incidents such as heart attacks or life-threatening respiratory arrests must reach their patient within the timeframe.
