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Data Sources (Inputs)

Outlined below are Data Sources identified and requested for this work.

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Non Public Data Sources

For our this work we requested granular profiles rather than record level data. This is outlined below.

Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) / Ambulance Data Set (ADS)

  • Profile of relative demand by hour of a day (by category, conveyance)
  • Job Cycle Time (JCT) components - mean, standard deviation, percentiles (by category, conveyance)
  • Relation between incident category and: ED acuity, ED length of stay

Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)

  • Portion of ED Demand that is direct vs non-ambulance
  • Relation between being a walk-in and: ED acuity, ED length of stay

National Ambulance Coordination Centre (NACC) report

  • Double Staffed Ambulance (DSA) fleet on-duty
  • Rapid Response Vehicle (RRV) on-duty
  • ED Cohorting
  • Escalation status

Daily Ambulance Collection

  • Profile of ambsolute and relative daily demand (demand as: ‘F2F incidents’; ‘Incidents’; ‘Calls Answered’, ‘Contacts’)
  • Absolute and relative (F2F) demand by category and care model
  • Mean and 90th Response times daily trend
  • Handover metrics daily trend

Public Data Sources

Ambulance Quality Indicators

NHS England, Ambulance Quality Indicators

  • Mean and 90th Response times
  • Relative (F2F) demand by category
  • Relative demand by care model
  • Vehicles dispatched per incident and category
  • Vehicles arriving at scene per incident and category