Ambulance handover performance cost trust £32k

While the trust achieved its 98 per cent target to transfer patients brought to the hospital by ambulance within 30 minutes for eleven months running, it experienced a spike in breaches in April 2013, costing it £16,800.

During the previous financial year the trust was fined £34,080. Imposed fines have varied each year but have always been based on breaching a 30-minute target.