Ambulance Services: Slough

The Government recognises that ambulance response times are not meeting the high standards patients should expect. We are determined to address this challenge and have set out a clear path for improvement. On the 25 October 2025 we published the Medium Term Planning Framework. Key ambulance ambitions include reducing average Category 2 ambulance response times to 25 minutes by the end of 2026/27.

Ambulance services in Slough are delivered by the South Central Ambulance Service. The trust is continuing to reduce response times through an on-going improvement programme, including: expanding the use of clinicians in 999 contact centres, to provide more telephone care for less serious calls, allowing ambulance crews to focus on the most serious patients; reviewing the scope and practice of clinical roles, looking at how to make the best use of different levels of clinical skills, and developing more specialist roles.