| EMS planning |
Chest pain center established in each prefecture, city, and county; hospital-based stroke center developed; the “Green” channel developed to connect the pre-hospital and in-hospital treatment of chest pain and stroke |
EMS center or station established in each prefecture-level city and conditional county; EMS radius achieved: ≤5 km in urban areas and 10–20 km in rural areas; EMS center as information platform of unified command and dispatch sharing healthcare information in each prefecture-level city; EMS network improved to include one EMS center and multiple hospitals or healthcare centers in urban and rural areas |
| Pre-hospital equipment and facilities |
Emergency map for chest pain and stroke developed; AEDs provided in crowded places; One ambulance for every 50,000 people |
Provision of one ambulance for every 30,000 people in prefecture-level cities (the allocation level of each county can refer to prefecture-level cities, and its base population can be increased to 300% of the county population) |
| EMS response |
100% of 10-second EMS answering rate achieved; 5-minute departure rate of ambulances increased |
The 120 emergency hotline being operated nationwide; 95% of calls being answered within 10 seconds and 3-minute departure rate of ambulances; 100% of patients with pre-hospital medical record; 98% of on-scene care rate for critical patients |
| EMS personnel |
Personnel training strengthened and ability of disease prevention and emergency response improved |
Sufficient healthcare staff guaranteed in each independent EMS center (station) |
