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Target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients could be lengthened, the BBC has learned.
A leaked NHS document includes plans to change the response time for some Red 2 patients - those with "serious but not the most life-threatening" conditions - from eight to 19 minutes in England.
It says the plans have been approved by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, subject to approval by ambulance trust bosses.
The memo says NHS England "explicitly stressed" the plans were confidential.
Details of the proposals "should not be disseminated beyond the group" involved in the discussions, it adds.
But the document, by the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) and dated 16 December, has been leaked - and one ambulance service director told the BBC the plans were about "political expediency rather than patient safety".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30566207
A leaked NHS document includes plans to change the response time for some Red 2 patients - those with "serious but not the most life-threatening" conditions - from eight to 19 minutes in England.
It says the plans have been approved by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, subject to approval by ambulance trust bosses.
The memo says NHS England "explicitly stressed" the plans were confidential.
Details of the proposals "should not be disseminated beyond the group" involved in the discussions, it adds.
But the document, by the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) and dated 16 December, has been leaked - and one ambulance service director told the BBC the plans were about "political expediency rather than patient safety".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30566207