Tag: Ambulance Service

A mother has slammed a low-traffic neighbourhood scheme after an ambulance was blocked from reaching her home as her 10-month-old daughter was having a seizure.

With waiting lists at an all-time high, the NHS has been forced to spend nearly £65 million to make hundreds of ambulances compliant with London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ulez scheme.

The NHS waiting list for routine operations has topped 7 million for the first time, leaving 1 in 8 people in England waiting for treatment. The number out of work due to long-term sickness is at a record high of 2.5m.

Why is the NHS in crisis and why have there been thousands of excess deaths since the spring? An Emergency Department doctor says what he sees on the frontline, including a spike in heart attacks since the vaccinations.

Police officers in England and Wales are spending up to a third of their time on non-policing matters, including assisting heart attack patients due to high demand and an overstretched ambulance service.

All ambulance trusts in England were put on the highest alert on Tuesday amid long waiting times of many hours in some cases. But 999 calls aren't higher than usual. What's going on?

The NHS is in such chaos that the London Ambulance Service has asked for volunteers to drive emergency cases to hospital. Volunteers will have to use their own vehicles and will not get a siren and flashing lights.

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by a parent who had a terrible experience with NHS Scotland. His six month-old son developed serious breathing difficulties, but he couldn't get an ambulance for 12 hours.