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An ambulance call handler is walking 35 miles in a day to raise money for a NHS staff charity after some of his colleagues took their own lives.
The UK's ambulance service is pleading with the public to stop phoning them with non-emergencies. With public health services stretched thin in the U.K., there is no shortage of anecdotes about people suffering from true health emergencies who wait hours ...
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Two electric Kias have become the first zero-emission emergency response vehicles for the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS). The two e-Niro SUVs will be used to help first responder paramedics to reach patients before conventional ...
Paramedics and other ambulance crew members have faced a record number of "violent assaults", ambulance chiefs have warned. There were 22,536 incidents of violence, aggression and abuse directed at UK ambulance staff in the 2024/25 financial year, the ...
Anthony Haley, a team leader in the Scottish Ambulance Service, said targets should be adjusted to reflect which incidents need a fast response. The Scottish Ambulance Service said it had already made changes to ensure the most appropriate response takes ...
A sick individual in the United Kingdom had to wait more than two and a half days for an ambulance to arrive, official data has revealed. The statistics, which the BBC obtained through a freedom of information request, revealed that in addition to one ...