Services under strain have appealed to patients to make their own way to hospital if they can, including taking a lift with a ...

UK ambulance services are facing a significant increase in 999 calls due to severe freezing weather, with some trusts ...

A 999 emergency call centre run by East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) is at risk of closure, the trust has confirmed. About 200 staff are employed at the site in Bedford and three ...

There are some things that ambulance call handlers cannot detect over the phone - and that's where Jackie Hatton-Bell comes in. She is one of 130 volunteers in Wales trained to attend the scene of 999 ...

The London Ambulance Service's 999 call system suffered a technical fault on Wednesday that resulted in having to revert back to handling calls using pen and paper notes. The issue — which arose on ...

The ambulance was on blue lights at the time, but there was no patient on board [Reuters] Three paramedics have been injured after an ambulance crashed while it was responding to an emergency call.

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Two 999 emergency call centres run by the region's NHS ambulance service are to close, and a new one will open. The East of England Ambulance Trust (EEAST) said its sites in Bedford and Chelmsford ...

I’m going to be completely honest with you here ― I didn’t think much about what happened to ambulances when they got a 999 call until I read a Reddit post shared by site user u/deadliftbear. A ...