Recurring concern
Lack of overarching responsibility for patient safety risks from ambulance delays
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Request correctionFirst reported 22 Sep 2024•Latest report 3 Oct 2024
What this concern includes
Includes failures to assign, define or exercise overarching accountability for patient safety risks caused by ambulance delays, including gaps where responsible organisations lack control over the services primarily responsible for delays.
Not included
- Excludes generic failures of governance or accountability that are not explicitly tied to patient safety risks from ambulance delays.
- Excludes operational ambulance-delay causes, response-time failures or service-capacity deficiencies unless the report specifically frames them as an overarching accountability gap for the associated patient-safety risk.
- Excludes responsibility gaps concerning other transport, referral, discharge or emergency-care processes.
- Reports
- 2
- Individual concerns
- 4
- Date range
- 2024–2024
- Stated actions
- 0
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Reports about this concern issued each year.
* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
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Concerns and responses across reports
Only concerns grouped under this recurring concern are included. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.
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Concerns raised2
Lack of control over services primarily responsible for ambulance delays
Lack of overarching responsibility for patient safety risks from ambulance delays
This report raised 6 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concernsEach statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statementsNo respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
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Concerns raised2
Lack of overarching responsibility for patient safety risk from ambulance delays
Lack of organisational control over services primarily responsible for ambulance delays
This report raised 4 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concernsEach statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statementsNo respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
Data last updated 7 September 2026