Time limit on ambulance dispatch set to be quadrupled

Ambulance triage

The time taken by the emergency service to decide whether to dispatch an ambulance is likely to be extended from the current one minute window to four minutes as part of wide ranging reforms, an NHS England director said yesterday.

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