General News
14 February, 2025
Response times released
Central Goldfields Code 1 Ambulance response times remain notably below Ambulance Victoria’s (AV) target alongside the state with both slightly declining from the previous quarter.
According to Ambulance Victoria’s Performance for 2024/25 Quarter 2 report, between October 1 to December 31 2024, the Central Goldfields AV crews responded to 51.3 percent of Code 1 cases in under 15 minutes with an average response time of 20 minutes and 53 seconds.
The Central Goldfields Code 1 stats were also a slight decline from the previous quarter with 57.2 percent being within 15 minutes with an average response time of 18 minutes and 15 seconds.
For comparison, first responders across the state reached 64.9 percent of Code 1 cases within the state-wide target with an average response time of 15 minutes and 42 seconds.
Ambulance Victoria’s two official response time targets are:
• Respond to Code 1 incidents within 15 minutes for 85 percent of incidents statewide, and
• Respond to Code 1 incidents within 15 minutes for 90 percent of incidents in centres with populations greater than 7500.
Despite being below official response time targets both locally and across the state, AV said while response times are an important way to measure their effective delivery of an ambulance service, it’s only one of a number of measures they use.
AV executive director regional operations Danielle North said the last quarter of 2024 was AV’s fourth busiest on record.
“We have seen a 26.6 percent increase in Code 1 cases since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than five years ago,” she said.
“In the face of this sustained pressure, our highly skilled paramedics and first responders do a remarkable job providing best care to their communities, each and every day.”