HNZ00070972 Appendix One: Data for Emergency Road Ambulance
Emergency Road Ambulance PURPLE and RED response time performances from 2022 – 2024
Key to triage categories referred to:
PURPLE: Expected cardiac or respiratory arrest
RED: Incidents appearing immediately life- or limb-threatening or time critical
Orange: Urgent / potentially serious but not immediately life-threatening incidents
Green: Non-urgent/low acuity incidents
Grey: Non-urgent/low acuity incidents where further telephone triage is appropriate
1982
National PURPLE response time performance
Act
Urban/Rural PURPLE response performance within 6/10 min,
January 2022 – October 2024
70%
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Urban 6 min.
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Urban/Rural PURPLE response performance within 10/25 min,
January 2022 – October 2024
100%
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Urban 12 min.
Rural 25 min.
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National RED response time performance
Urban/Rural RED response performance within 8/12 min,
January 2022 – October 2024
55%
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Urban 8 min.
Rural 12 min.
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Urban/Rural RED response performance within 20/30 min,
January 2022 – October 2024
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