FOI 25-451 Emergency Ambulance Discharges in the Borders
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-451 Emergency Ambulance Discharges in the Borders
- Request Date
- 10 Oct 2025
- Response Date
- 05 Nov 2025
- Information Requested
Please can you advise how many discharges have been done from the borders general hospital using emergency ambulances. Please can you break this down into weeks, over the last 6 months from the date the request is actioned. Could you also advise how many service hours are used completing these
- Response
Please see the sheet attached detailing the number of emergency ambulance only discharges and total service time in hours from Borders General hospital between 07/04/2025 - 05/10/2025.
It is important to note – A&E vehicles would only be used for hospital discharges where a more appropriate vehicle is not available; this would usually be during nightshift. Hospital discharges are given low-priority and an A&E vehicle will not be diverted away from a higher priority call to attend.
The Scottish Ambulance Service implemented the Clinical Response Model which helps to categorise calls, more information can be found on our website Unscheduled Care Operational Statistics. Calls for hospital discharges that are assigned to A&E vehicles are given a routine category, lowest. If the clinical demand is too high for greater priority incidents, this routine white call would be assigned to a Patient Transport Vehicle when one is available.
The service time is calculated in hours from where a resource has been allocated to the time it is cleared.
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.
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