'Ambulance delays are a life or death situation'
It currently takes an average of 20 minutes to respond to life-threatening category one callouts in the Cotswolds and Forest ...
A runaway alligator and other non-emergencies that hampered UK ambulance dispatchers
As a dispatcher in a busy call center in Wales, Worrall has to be unflappable, patient and able to efficiently handle the ...
UK ambulance service pleads with public to stop making non-urgent calls
Ambulance Service, is the patient breathing? Yes, but we haven’t got any heating due to a power cut, can someone bring us a ...
Councillors 'losing patience' over ambulance times
Councillors have "lost patience" with delays in ambulance response times in rural parts of Gloucestershire, a council meeting ...
Some of the unbelievable time-wasting 999 calls made to local ambulance service
A nightmare, lost keys and a power cut are all among the reasons that real people called the South Western Ambulance Service ...
South Western Ambulance Service issues 999 call reminder
SWASFT urges public to use 999 only for life-threatening emergencies (Image: SWASFT) Such calls included a hurt finger from playing football, a lost walking stick, lost keys, a bad nightmare and ...
South West Sainsbury's closed after medical incident
A medical emergency at Sainsbury's Castle Court in Bristol prompted a store closure this afternoon, January 31, as emergency ...
No injuries after ambulance car involved in crash with car
NOBODY was injured in a crash between an ambulance car on blue lights and another vehicle, the service has said.
Ambulance service urges residents to top up winter first aid kits
The ambulance service in Dorset is reminding people to make sure their winter first aid kit is well stocked. As the cold ...
Man dies after air ambulance landed in Newton Abbot
An air ambulance has landed outside a council headquarters in Devon this morning, Friday, January 31. The Devon Air Ambulance ...
Dorchester: Thomas Hardye School ambulance called out
A PERSON was taken to hospital after an ambulance was called out to a school in Dorchester. Paramedics attended the incident at the Thomas Hardye School in Queens Road, Dorchester, yesterday afternoon ...