Code 1 emergencies refer to patients that require urgent paramedic and hospital care.
In the Hume region, crews responded to 5451 Code 1 cases between January 1 and March 31, 2025, down from 5790 in the previous quarter, from October 1 to December 31, 2024.
According to the Ambulance Victoria quarter performance report from January to March 2025, under the Code 1 First Response Performance by LGA, Code 1 response times in Benalla have decreased from 18 minutes and one second to 16 minutes and 52 seconds, compared to three months ago.
This shows an improvement of 1 minute and 49 seconds.
But compared to January to March 2024, where the average time was 15 minutes and 37 seconds, current times are 1 minute and 47 seconds slower.
Reports also show that from January to March 2025, the percentage of emergencies that were responded to under 15 minutes was 59.7 per cent.
In October to December 2024, the percentage was 54.2 per cent.
The data also showed that there were 8 fewer call-outs from January to March than in the previous quarter, down from 308 to 300.
For more information, view the Ambulance Victoria quarter performance report at tinyurl.com/2d6ck9t4
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