Ambulances are responding to Greater Dandenong calls for help almost a minute faster than this time last year and the state average, new figures show
The Victorian Health Services and Ambulance Victoria Performance Data for quarter two 2017-2018 also reveal that Dandenong Hospital performed better in the three months to the end of December last year than the previous quarter.
The State Government released the data on Thursday 1 February.
In Greater Dandenong, 88.1 per cent of ambulances arrived within 15 minutes for code one emergencies for the period. This was up from 83.2 per cent a year earlier.
State-wide the average was 81.4 per cent, up from 76 per cent.
The average time for an ambulance to reach the scene of a code one emergency in Greater Dandenong over the same period improved from 11 minutes and 29 seconds to 10 minutes and 45 seconds.
The state figure was 11 minutes and 42 seconds.
The report also showed that Dandenong Hospital admitted 17 more emergency patients in the three months to the end of December than the previous three month period.
It treated 73 per cent of category two patients within 10 minutes of arrival at the emergency department (ED), up from 65 per cent in the previous quarter.
The hospital treated 67 per cent of all ED patients within the benchmark time in the report period, up from 61 per cent in the previous three months.
Half of the hospital’s ED patients received treatment within 22 minutes – better than the 26-minute median in the previous three months.
