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

A troubled ambulance trust previously ranked worst in the country has been slammed after it was discovered 28 new ambulances did not have passenger-side airbags. GMB Union has criticised the East of ...

Sixty-nine new ambulances are set to take to the road across the West Midlands, the region's ambulance service has confirmed.

Thousands of ambulance crews in England will be given body cameras after a sharp rise in attacks on NHS staff treating patients, the government has announced. Data shows that 3,569 ambulance staff ...

The EEAST ambulance was responding to an emergency when it was involved in the collision (stock photo) One person was taken to hospital after an ambulance was involved in a crash with two other ...

The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service has seen significant 999 response time improvements, but still ranks near the bottom in ...

The performance targets announced this month will apply to all 999 emergency calls and aim to save 250 cardiac arrest victims' lives a year. Jul 25, 2017 NHS England announced a new set of performance ...

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Sara England was putting together Ghostbusters costumes for Halloween when she noticed her baby wasn't doing well. Her 3-month-old son, Amari Vaca, had undergone open-heart surgery two months before, ...

A paramedic is seen by a line of ambulances outside the Royal London Hospital in east London earlier this year. (Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images) England's ambulance crisis has hit a new ...

All ambulance services in England are on the highest level of alert and are under "extreme pressure", trusts are confirming. A combination of COVID absences among staff, difficulty caused by the hot ...