Ambulance response times continue to lag in Victoria, with new data showing it takes more than 15 minutes to respond to one in three critical incidents. 
While the new data shows a modest improvement in ambulance response times from January to March 2023, the health system overall in Victoria was still under huge pressure. 
Out of the 92,413 Code One cases in the stateside situation, only 65.2 percent of them were treated within 15 minutes during the January-March quarter, well below the 85 percent benchmark set out by Ambulance Victoria.   
For local centres and localities with a population greater than 7,500, the 15-minute response time percentage was 69.3 percent, again well below the 90 percent benchmark. …