Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Ambulance figures 2019 to August 2024 (FOI)Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Ambulance figures 2019 to August 2024 (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
18 September 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
Please advise the number of cardiac arrests attended by the States of Jersey Ambulance Service for 2019 to 2024 to date.
B
Please breakdown this down by if it was in a person’s home or in a public space for the data in years above.
C
Please confirm when bystander CPR and / or an AED was utilised prior to an ambulance arrival?
Response
A
Year | Number of calls attended where the first two digits of the [Despatch Code/Disposition] are "09" indicating a despatch coding of "Cardiac or Respiratory Arrest/Death" |
| 2019 | 113
|
| 2020 | 96
|
| 2021 | 118 |
| 2022 | 132 |
| 2023 | 158 |
| *2024 | 79
|
*to 31 August 2024
B and C
The information, as requested, is not held. To provide a response the data would need to be extracted from various sources and manipulated and might still not be accurate. The Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.
Article applied
Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”
For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –
(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or
(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.
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