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Ambulance response times fastest in two years

Category 1 call-outs are below eight minutes

Ambulance response times for the highest priority category have hit below eight minutes for the first time in two years.

The figure was revealed as part of Manx Care's latest monthly board meeting.

Senior management at the health body are not entirely sure what's prompted the shift.

It's understood work is going on behind the scenes to better explain the improvement.

Operations Director Oliver Radford thinks a new system placing clinicians in the Emergency Services Joint Control Room may have played a part:

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