NHS waiting times for heart appointments reach highest level on record
Waiting times for heart appointments in Scotland are at their highest level on record, figures have shown. Data from Public Health Scotland showed more than 24,000 people were waiting for a cardiology ...
Ambulances waiting two hours on average outside A&E
Ambulances have been waiting nearly two hours on average to hand over patients outside Welsh hospitals, new figures reveal.
'Heroes on Call' documentary reveals lifesaving legacy of the Freedom House Ambulance Service
Over 50 years ago, in a historically Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh, a little-known group of trailblazers changed emergency medicine forever.
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London Ambulance Service worker survives cancer three times
An emergency medical technician has survived cancer three times. Katherine Murrell, of London Ambulance Service, has endured three cancer diagnoses over 11 years, but has now been cancer free since ...
'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 ...
Team GB Olympian's two-month-old son died after 111 call handler referred them to out-of-hours GP rather than dispatch an emergency ambulance, inquest hears
Two-month-old Ben Condon - whose father Allyn Condon competed for Team GB in the athletics at Sydney 2000 and bobsleigh at ...
Operator failed to send ambulance to baby, inquest hears
A 111 call handler referred the parents of a premature baby to a GP rather than dispatching an ambulance due to "external ...
Call handler ‘at fault’ for not calling ambulance for sick baby Ben Condon, inquest hears
A 111 call handler referred the parents of a premature baby to an out-of-hours GP rather than dispatch an emergency ambulance ...
Number of patients dying before the reach hospital surges by over 80% in five years
There were 8,780 instances in 2024 where the patient died before an ambulance arrived or paramedics failed to resuscitate ...
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 ...