A positive sign: Ambulance Victoria numbers have improved over the last quarter both in Greater Shepparton and state-wide.
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Ambulance response times have fallen across areas of Victoria — Greater Shepparton included.
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During the most recent quarter (October to December 2023), ambulance response times fell across all types of incidents in Greater Shepparton compared to 12 months earlier.
For code one incidents, the average response time dropped by two minutes and 35 seconds during October to December 2023 compared to that quarter from the year before.
Good news: The response time average for code one incidents in Greater Shepparton has improved.
In that quarter, Greater Shepparton was one of 74 of Victoria’s 79 local government areas that improved their percentage of code-one incidents responded to inside the 15-minute target.
There was an 8.1 percentage point increase in the number of first responses under 15 minutes in Greater Shepparton.
Numbers tell the story: There was an improvement in Greater Shepparton’s code-one response times under 15 minutes in the most recent quarter.
During this time, there was a total of 1386 first responses, which was down from the previous quarter (July to September 2023) by 80 people, but compared to the rest of the year, it was relatively consistent.
Out of these responses, 78.79 per cent were from Shepparton-Mooroopna.
For code-two incidents, compared to the 2022 October to December quarter, the average response time fell by six minutes and 20 seconds, sitting at 39 minutes and 57 seconds.
Getting lower: The code-two response time average for Greater Shepparton has dropped.
The total number of these first responses during this quarter was 853 — a 9.22 per cent increase from the previous quarter.
Of these responses, only 17.58 per cent of these responses were to calls from outside Shepparton-Mooroopna.
For the first time in two years, the average response time to code-one incidents across Victoria was under 15 minutes.
This came during what was the busiest quarter on record for Ambulance Victoria state-wide, with a total of 154,267 emergency cases.
However, despite improvements in response times, these numbers were yet to reach Ambulance Victoria’s state targets.
The state-wide target is to respond to 85 per cent of code-one incidents within 15 minutes.
As of the most recent quarter, it was at 67.3 per cent.
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