RAPID-response cars which can reach emergency calls more quickly than ambulances have been delivered to Bromley and Greenwich.
London Ambulance Service (LAS) recently received £11.6m to launch a four-year improvement programme.
As part of the programme, two response cars have been bought to cover Lewisham, Greenwich, Bromley and Bexley boroughs. They will be based at Greenwich and Bromley ambulance stations.
The LAS hopes, by 2003, the cars, which will cost £21,000 when fully kitted out, will help it reach its target of getting to 75 per cent of all emergency calls within eight minutes.
At present, 57 per cent of all calls are reached within the time limit.
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