FOI 25-154 PTV's used at Emergency Incidents
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-154 PTV's used at Emergency Incidents
- Request Date
- 01 Apr 2025
- Response Date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Information Requested
In EACH of the last seven financial years 2018/19 to the most recent financial year (April 1 2024 to March 31 2025) how many times did a patient transport vehicle attended an emergency incident?
- Response
The Scottish Ambulance Service will always dispatch an emergency ambulance for patients who require an ambulance intervention and/or monitoring on route to hospital.
Patient Transport Vehicles only attend emergency incidents after clinical assessment through our Integrated Clinical Hub or clinicians at scene, who have identified that a patient requires further assessment at hospital, it is safe and appropriate for the patient to travel by this method and not necessary for an emergency ambulance to transport them to hospital.
PTV’s will and have been tasked to Cardiac Arrests where they are the closest resource. The number of deployments is minimal, and the figures are suppressed as <5 annually
Please see the table below detailing the number of emergency incidents attended by a patient transport vehicle.
2018-2019 239 Attended Incidents
2019-2020 161 Attended Incidents
2020-2021 114 Attended Incidents
2021-2022 260 Attended Incidents
2022-2023 696 Attended Incidents
2023-2024 - 376 Attended Incidents
2024-2025 320 Attended Incidents
