AMBULANCE service response times in Hywel Dda are improving after two months of failing to hit a new Welsh Government target health watchdogs have heard.

Hywel Dda’s ambulance service was the only one in Wales to fail to meet the new target that 65 per cent of immediate life-threatening calls should receive a response within eight minutes, with the new target starting in October.

But Brian Pullen, of the Ceredigion ambulance service, told members of the Ceredigion committee of Hywel Dda Community Health Council, that there had been improvements and that the targets had been achieved in December and was on course to be met in January.

In December, the Ceredigion section of the Hywel Dda ambulance service saw 73.5 per cent of life-threatening calls receive a response within eight minutes.

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