article_snippet.sent: Ambulance response times for the most serious call-outs will rise to over nine minutes, 500,000 fewer older people will receive social care and 600,000 people will be forced to wait for more than four hours on trolleys on A&E, Mr Burnham warned.
article_snippet.sent: A further two million a year will be forced to wait over four hours in A&E – up from 1.4million last year and just 350,000 in 2009/10.
article_snippet.sent: Ambulance call out times are also under growing pressure, Labour said.
article_snippet.sent: In April 2011, the average ambulance response time for immediately life-threatening call-outs was 5.30 minutes.
article_snippet.sent: By February 2015 response times had risen by 1.6 minutes to 6.91 minutes.
article_snippet.sent: If this trend were to continue over the next five years, the average ambulance response time in May 2020 would be 9.12 minutes, an increase of over two thirds on 2010.