People in rural areas wait over 50% longer for a 999 response to life-threatening injuries.
Some women in the end stages of labour will also be classed as the highest priority.
Judy O'Sullivan, of the BHF, said it was"critical" that expert help from the ambulance services arrived as"quickly as possible". She likened it to a"game of chess", with crews stationed at different points in a region to give them the best chance of responding. There were 300 districts that had a very small numbers of critical cases, including some remote parts of Scotland where there was just one callout during the 10 months looked at. Some of these took over an hour to reach.
These waits also were longer than those in any district with more than 50 callouts in Wales or Scotland but the differences in the way response times are measured may be a factor in that.Ambulance services say they are expected to achieve the average target response times on a regional and national level only - not down to the super-local level looked at by BBC News.
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