Figures unearthed by the Conservative Shadow Health team using the Freedom of Information Act have shown that Wiltshire ranks third from the bottom in the performance of ambulance trusts nationwide, North Wiltshire MP James Gray revealed today.

“I am seriously considered that the speed at which our local ambulances are reaching emergencies in Wiltshire is deemed to be the third worst in the entire country,” Mr Gray said, speaking from Westminster this afternoon.

“The Government target is for 75% of serious emergencies (‘Category A’) to be reached within 8 minutes. But performance in Wiltshire is just 54.28%. Conservatives have expressed serious concern about the postcode lottery in health care for a long time, but the results obtained by my colleague Stephen O’Brien MP show just how widespread this is. The Health Secretary’s own PCT comes in at ninth worst in the country, but overall, the worst performing PCTs are in primarily Conservative and rural constituencies, whereas the best cover Labour areas.”

Shadow Minister for Health Stephen O’Brien MP said: “It is a damning indictment of Labour’s treatment of our NHS that ambulance provision varies so widely across the country. Alan Johnson has clearly not got a grip on the NHS.We know that they have presided over a growing postcode lottery in the provision of drugs and healthcare, but the utter incompetence which gives rise to such patchy emergency care is unforgivable: especially as around this incompetence hangs a nasty whiff of favouring Labour held constituencies.”

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