Ambulance call handlers are going off sick and quitting in droves after bearing the brunt of public anger due to 999 delays and long NHS ambulance wait times. Data revealed under Freedom of ...
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust has declared a critical incident following sustained pressure on ambulance services ...
The NHS says ambulances and A&E departments face record high levels of demand EMERGENCY patients are being forced into an “ambulance by Uber” crisis as soaring numbers arrive to A&E under their own ...
Exclusive: Concerns over patient safety after NHS figures show less-qualified staff attending urgent calls One in three life-or-death 999 ambulance calls in some parts of England are not attended by a ...
HEATSTROKE patients now wait an hour for an ambulance to turn up as analysis found NHS response times have nearly doubled in the last five years. One pensioner languished for nine-and-a-half hours in ...
The NHS hospital backlog stands at 7.1 million – over two million more than before the pandemic. Targets for ambulances, emergency departments, appointment waiting times and cancer care have not been ...
Hundreds of NHS ambulance staff across the country are waiting to complete essential driver training, new data from the Liberal Democrats has shown. This is despite dangerous delays to response times ...
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