EAST Midlands Ambulance Service has been penalised for missing one key target for a third year running – but it hit another target for the second time in a row.The trust is supposed to get an ambulance to 95% of all emergency calls within 19 minutes but fell short of this over the 12 months to April this year, achieving 91.85%.Ambulance bosses said that of the 234,120 responses made to life-threatening calls over that period, this equated to 52 each day arriving after the target time.And...
