Question follow-through · 110308
Ambulance Services: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of ambulance call-outs were assessed as avoidable or suitable for alternative pathways in the East of England during the last 12 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Mar 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of ambulance call-outs were assessed as avoidable or suitable for alternative pathways in the East of England during the last 12 months.
4 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Mar 2026
Answer published
Between January and December 2025, a total of 121,305 emergency 999 calls were successfully redirected away from a traditional ambulance dispatch in the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (EEAST) and into alternative care pathways.Thes...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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