At 700 pounds, she could not leave her own home to get the medical help she needs

Witnesses were outraged after staff at Saskatoon City Hospital insisted upon phoning an ambulance for an unresponsive patient discovered outside the hospital’s emergency room doors

Patient care would be “prioritized” based on severity—those needing immediate attention, those who can wait and those who can be “persuaded” not to ask for an ambulance at all

After a year of negotiations, pay talks have broken down between the union and Ambulance Victoria over minimum rest breaks, with claims by the union that weary paramedics are falling asleep at the wheel

Hospitals must keep better records of how long it takes to hand patients from ambulances into A&E departments, says the Auditor General for Wales

A quarter of stroke patients are still not receiving rapid treatment in dedicated units despite evidence to show it improves survival chances and minimises disability, a national audit revealed

Of 7,018 calls that were considered to be Class A or immediately life threatening, ambulances or rapid response vehicles arrived within the recommended eight minutes for only 4,849 of them.

West Midlands Ambulance Service has logged almost 10,000 hoax calls in Staffordshire between 2006 and 2008, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show

A man caught with a hoard of police equipment in his car had previously been fined for wearing the wrong ambulance uniform in public

A health board has been ordered to apologise after leaving a paralysed woman without food or water for 20 hours, in one of a series of errors in her treatment