The target standard response time for these urgent incidents is seven minutes.
The target standard response time for these urgent incidents is seven minutes. Ambulance trusts across the country are under intense pressure and continue to miss existing targets for answering 999 calls on time. Figures published earlier this month showed ambulances had improved their response times, with the average response time in January for ambulances dealing with the most urgent category 1 incidents, such as cardiac arrest, being eight minutes and 30 seconds, down from 10 minutes and 57 seconds in December.