Ambulance and Paramedic resources (FOI)

​Request

Could you please kindly provide the information below?

A

How many front-line ambulances are on duty on each day shift? (Please provide a monthly average for 2019, 2020, 2021)

B

How many front-line ambulances are on duty on each night shift? (Please provide a monthly average for 2019, 2020, 2021)

C

How often is more than one ambulance sent to a single incident? (Please provide a monthly average for 2019, 2020, 2021)

D

How many paramedics are currently contract or agency staff?

E

How many paramedics were contract or agency staff earlier this year as well as in 2020 and 2019? (Please provide a monthly breakdown)

F

How much is being spent on travel / accommodation / fees for those staff? (Please provide a monthly breakdown for 2021, 2020 and 2019)

Response

A

Three emergency Ambulances and one Intermediary crew plus a Duty Officer (paramedic) as single responder are rostered daily. (When resources allow, additional vehicles will be provided, during the day Monday to Friday and managers will make up additional crews if required.)

The Government of Jersey does not hold a monthly average of how many front-line ambulances are on duty on each shift in recorded form. To provide a response to your request would require manipulation of data. A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate data to provide a response. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies as this information is not held.

B

Two emergency ambulances, one Intermediary crew until 23:30, plus a Duty Officer (paramedic) as single responder until 03:00 then on call plus a Duty Senior Officer (paramedic) on call out of hours.

C

The table below includes where a response car was sent in addition to a double crewed ambulance. The second response may attend later in the call for transport or back up and not be dispatched on the initial call.

Vehicles attending Incidents

D

There are currently no contract staff working as paramedics within the Ambulance Service.

There are currently less than five agency staff working as paramedics within the Ambulance Service.

E

For each month reviewed in the requested period there were less than five contracted paramedics and less than five agency paramedics.

Where numbers are less than five, disclosure control has been applied to avoid identification of any individuals. Article 25 (Personal information) has therefore been applied

F

The Government of Jersey does not hold this information in recorded form. To provide a response to your request would require manipulation of data. A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate data to provide a response. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies as this information is not held.

Article Applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.[3]

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.