Question follow-through · 63208

Community First Responders

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued on the use of volunteer Community First Responders to respond to Category 1 medical emergencies.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 26 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 30 Jun 2025
Answer: 3 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

26 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued on the use of volunteer Community First Responders to respond to Category 1 medical emergencies.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
No guidance has been issued. Each ambulance trust has responsibility for the arrangements and publishing of guidance on their Community First Responder schemes.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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