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Derry City and Strabane: health, flood risk and winter

A&E waits at the hospitals nearest its residents, ambulance response times, homes at flood risk, fuel poverty and extra deaths in winter, each against the rest of Northern Ireland, from official records. Neighbourhood pages cover England and Wales; a full report works for any home in the UK.

Extra deaths in winter

15.4%

Average winter rise in deaths, 2014/15 to 2018/19 (Northern Ireland 19.6%).

Ambulance response times

  • Ambulance service Derry City and Strabane is covered by Western Health and Social Care Trust. Response times are published for the whole board or trust, not by council.
  • Category 1 mean response, 2025-26 Western Health and Social Care Trust 11 min 27 s (Northern Ireland 12 min 3 s).
Category 1 calls (life-threatening): mean response, financial year, 2025-26: each trust against Northern Ireland: Southern 14.1 min; South Eastern 13.9 min; Northern 13.6 min; Western 11.5 min; Belfast 8.5 min. Reference lines: Northern Ireland.Southern14.1 minSouth Eastern13.9 minNorthern13.6 minWestern11.5 minBelfast8.5 minNorthern Ireland
Department of Health (Northern Ireland), hospital statistics: emergency care activity, Table 29, from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service's Clinical Response Model. Published yearly.

GP appointments: how soon people are seen

  • GP appointments Not published by practice or council for Northern Ireland.

Fire and rescue response times

  • Response to fires Not published as data for Northern Ireland.

Homes at risk of flooding

  • Homes at risk of flooding Not published for Derry City and Strabane: the Department for Infrastructure does not publish homes at risk by council.

Fuel poverty

  • Fuel poverty Not available yet: the Housing Executive publishes it by council, but its website refuses automated downloads, so it is loaded by hand.

Extra deaths in winter

  • Five winters before the pandemic (2014/15 to 2018/19) Deaths in winter were on average 15.4% higher than in the rest of the year here (Northern Ireland 19.6%); our own average of the five winters' indexes.
  • Latest winter, 2024/25 20.8% more deaths than in the rest of the year (Northern Ireland 18.9%).
Extra deaths in winter (winter mortality index, %): Derry City and Strabane against Northern Ireland: Derry City and Strabane 13.2 (2010/11) to 20.8 (2024/25); Northern Ireland 12.4 (2010/11) to 18.9 (2024/25).6.728.92024/252021/222018/192015/162010/11Derry City and Strabane20.8Northern Ireland18.9
The winter mortality index: deaths from December to March against the average of the four months before and the four after, as a percentage. One winter in a small council swings widely; a gap is a winter with no rise, which the publisher does not index. Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Winter mortality 2024/25, Table 6 (by date of death, provisional).

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Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Health, flood, fuel poverty and winter figures: the publishers named in each section, Open Government Licence v3.0 unless stated. Figures describe the area, not any home, and are not a valuation or a prediction.