Biking to Save Lives! London’s Bicycle Medics Notch Impressive Savings for NHS
(Source: The London Evening Standard)
These figures from the London Ambulance Service about the special cycle crews, set up to respond to 999 calls in heavy traffic, are quite impressive:
(1) The average response time is now five minutes but can be as short as just 60 seconds
(2) Created savings including £300,000 in fuel – the equivalent of 20,000 ambulance journeys.
(3) Treated 50,000 patients since they were first piloted 10 years ago and freed up an estimated 5,000 ambulance hours a year, the equivalent of having an extra two vehicles staffed with two paramedics.