1247. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service records the number of incidents in which ambulance allocation exceeds specified time thresholds including 10, 20, 30 and 60 minutes. [37849/26]
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1248. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any patient harm reviews, mortality reviews, or clinical governance assessments have identified ambulance allocation or dispatch delays as a contributory factor since 2020. [37850/26]
1249. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any correlation analysis has been conducted between ambulance dispatch timelines and patient outcomes, including cardiac arrest, stroke, trauma or sepsis cases. [37851/26]
1250. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any incidents involving delayed ambulance allocation have been escalated to the HSE Enterprise Risk Register, Serious Incident Management Team, or National Incident Management System since 2020. [37852/26]
1251. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains a central dataset recording the elapsed time between emergency call receipt and ambulance resource allocation for every 999 incident nationally. [37853/26]
1252. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether regional variation data exists comparing ambulance dispatch allocation times across community healthcare organisations or operational regions. [37854/26]
1253. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any independent review has examined whether current ambulance dispatch standards are achievable under existing staffing and fleet levels. [37855/26]
1254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any ambulance response-time risks, dispatch-delay risks, emergency resource-allocation risks, or ambulance-capacity pressures have been recorded at local, regional, divisional, or operational level within the National Ambulance Service risk-management system since 2020, even where not escalated to the national NAS Risk Register. [37857/26]
1255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the criteria used by the National Ambulance Service to determine whether ambulance dispatch or response-time risks are escalated onto the NAS Risk Register. [37858/26]
1256. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any proposals, recommendations, or requests to escalate ambulance dispatch or allocation risks onto the NAS Risk Register were considered, rejected, deferred, or removed since 2020. [37859/26]
1257. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal reviews have examined discrepancies between ambulance demand pressures and the absence of dispatch-related risks on the NAS Risk Register. [37860/26]
1258. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the percentage compliance achieved by the National Ambulance Service with the EMS Dispatch Standard for Ireland in each year from 2020 to 2026 to date. [37861/26]
1260. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any ambulance dispatch-time targets or performance thresholds are routinely missed at national or regional level; and if so, the most frequently affected categories. [37863/26]
1261. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal reporting on prolonged dispatch allocation times exceeding specified thresholds. [37864/26]
1262. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE or National Ambulance Service conducts any analysis linking ambulance dispatch timelines or delayed allocation times with patient outcomes including mortality, ICU admission, cardiac events, stroke outcomes, or adverse incidents. [37865/26]
1263. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any audit, review, or patient-safety investigation since 2020 identified ambulance dispatch or allocation delays as a contributory factor in adverse clinical outcomes. [37866/26]
1266. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service was required to implement any corrective measures, improvement plans, or operational changes following IAED accreditation assessments since 2020.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37869/26]
1268. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the percentage compliance achieved by the National Emergency Operations Centre with the EMS Dispatch Standard in each year from 2020 to 2026, in tabular form. [37873/26]
1269. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of incidents in which ambulance mobilisation exceeded internally monitored escalation thresholds in each year since 2020. [37874/26]
1270. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Emergency Operations Centre Quality Improvement Unit records instances of non-compliance with dispatch standards; and if so, the number recorded annually since 2020. [37875/26]
1272. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any correlation analysis has been conducted between ambulance dispatch timelines and adverse patient outcomes including cardiac arrest, stroke, trauma, or mortality cases. [37877/26]
1273. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any external audit reports, IAED assessments, Governance Validation Framework reviews, or accreditation findings relating to ambulance dispatch performance since 2020 identified deficiencies, recommendations, or areas requiring improvement. [37878/26]
1274. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE records the longest ambulance allocation or dispatch delay recorded nationally in each year since 2020. [37879/26]
1275. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any internal concern, incident report, or risk assessment has been raised regarding ambulance dispatch delays despite no current risk escalation appearing on the NAS risk register. [37880/26]
1276. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether dispatch compliance data is reviewed by the HSE Board, National Director, or Department of Health on a recurring basis; and if so, the frequency and format of such reporting. [37881/26]