2013 Municipal, First Nations and Dispatch Centre Response Time Submissions

All response time plans for 2013 have been received as required by legislation. Emergency Health Services Branch is now preparing the response time submission files for posting.

Responsibilities of the Sectors

Municipal Land Ambulance
Beginning in October 2012, every upper tier municipality and delivery agent will:

• Develop an annual response time performance plan that shall sets response time targets for responses to notices respecting patients categorized as Canadian Triage Acuity Scale (“CTAS”) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5;
• Ensure that this plan is continually maintained, enforced and where necessary, updated;
• Provide each plan and each update to the ministry;
• Report to ministry on the response time performance achieved under the previous year’s plan.

Land Ambulance Communications Services
Beginning in October 2012, every land ambulance communications service will:

• Develop an annual response time performance plan that sets out the percentage of times that the communication service will give notice within two minutes of the time a request is received respecting sudden cardiac arrest patients or other patients categorized as CTAS 1;
• Ensure that this plan is continually maintained, enforced and where necessary, updated;
• Provide each plan and each update to the ministry;
• Report to ministry on the response time performance achieved under the previous year’s plan.