Ambulance Call Outs
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- 1688/22
- Request Date
- 11 Oct 2022
- Response Date
- 01 Nov 2022
- Information Requested
For EACH of the last four fiscal years (i.e. 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23 up to October 1), please tell me:
1 The TOTAL number of ambulance call outs to Dungavel House, Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, ML106RF.
2 In addition, I request the TOTAL number of ambulance call outs be broken down for EACH type of incident (e.g. self-harm).
3 And, if possible, for the TOTAL number of ambulance call outs be broken down by whether the TOTAL number of patients attended were staff/detainee/visitor, etc.
- Response
For the given data, you will see that some of the figures are shown as, five or less than five, please note that this figure has been suppressed because the statistical value is less than five. The Scottish Ambulance service has a duty, under the Data Protection Act to avoid directly or indirectly revealing any personal details. It is therefore widely understood that provision of statistics on small numbers, five or less are statistically suppressed upon disclosure.
1 Please see table below showing incidents attended to Dungavel house between 1 April 2019 and 1 October 2022 by financial year.
Call Started Financial Year
incident count
attended
2019 - 2020
17
9
2020 - 2021
5
<5
2021 - 2022
20
16
2022 - 2023
10
6
2 Please see the table below showing the attended incidents by type of incident. Please note that this information is the full time period (1 April 2019 to 1 October 2022) and only shows types of incident which have had 5 or more incidents.
Chief Complaint
Attended
Chest Pains
6
HCP – Emergency Admissions and Transfers
13
3 We do not hold information about whether patients attended were staff/detainee/visitor etc. We have applied Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act to this question.
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