The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) is misleading the public by distorting emergency response times, a union has claimed.

The GMB said the trust was marking 999 calls as “target met” when the emergency was still ongoing, to hit targets.

The trust strongly denied the accusation, calling the claims “untrue, unacceptable and very disappointing”.

The EEAST has reached its targets over the past year.

‘Distorting figures’

Mick Vivian, a GMB organiser, said in a statement: “One thing they cannot allow is management distorting the figures on targets met because this simply misleads the public and everybody else.

“GMB wants to see an end to such form filling.”

via BBC News