More than 6,600 taken by ambulance
MORE than 6,600 emergency, urgent calls and transfers were made by Guernsey’s ambulance service last year.
The figures for the year were released yesterday, which showed a 2% drop on the previous year. However it was a 36% rise compared with 2017.
The figures represent an average of 18 emergency and urgent cases per day.
However demand peaked on one day in the summer, with the highest demand of 32 calls in a 24-hour period in August.
Overall the busiest month of the year was December and the quietest month of 2022 was January.
Head of operations Dean de la Mare said the service provided a high level of care.
‘The nature of our work is not always predictable and we can see periods of lower than normal demand followed by periods of high demand and it is not unusual for several 999 calls to come in at once,’ he said.
‘At times of high demand, senior officers can be deployed to frontline operations and off-duty staff are called back to work to provide cover and maintain resilience for the island.
‘I would like to take this opportunity to thank staff who return to work to ensure cover is maintained.’
Overall there was 6,642 emergency, urgent calls and transfers in 2022.
The service also experienced a year-on-year increase of 3.5% in non-emergency patient transfers, with a total of 2,877 cases recorded in 2022.
