A campaign to stop bogus and inappropriate calls to the region’s ambulance service is launched today. Frustrated bosses and crews at South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) want to stamp out abuse of the 999 system which saw them receive 1,235 hoax calls last year. They were also faced with a deluge of absurd requests including [...]

A councillor has called for the Great Western Ambulance Trust to be disbanded after the death of an 88-year-old woman who faced a “totally unacceptable” wait for treatment. Doreen Wignall slipped on ice and fell, hitting her head, in Ludgershall on December 17. A paramedic took almost an hour and a half to reach her, [...]

Hampshire’s ambulance service provider is the best in England. And to prove it South Central Ambulance Service scooped the Ambulance Trust of the Year gong at the Health Businesses Awards ceremony held at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. The regional ambulance service which also covers Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, fought off competition for the title, from the [...]

Hospitals have been accused by ministers of treating patients “like parts on a production line” after official figures suggested that hundreds of thousands of people every year are being sent home before they are well enough. More than 660,000 people were brought back to hospital last year within 28 days of leaving, statistics show, sparking [...]

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust SCAS has been named ‘Ambulance Trust of the Year’. The service scooped the top prize at the 2011 Health Business Awards ceremony at the Emirates Stadium in London on December 8.It covers Hampshire along with several other counties and beat out its counterparts in the West Midlands, South West [...]

As the festive period gets in to full swing and Christmas Day is approaching fast, the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) is asking the public to spare a thought for the accident and emergency crews who will be working over the Christmas period. Ambulance paramedics, non-emergency crews and control room and support staff will [...]

Latest figures show the Welsh Ambulance service received just more than 31,000 emergency calls in October – up 6.9% on September and up by 4% compared with October 2010. via WalesOnline.

An NHS trust has apologised after a Sky News investigation uncovered a culture of secrecy surrounding incompetent paramedics. The North East Ambulance Trust was accused of criminal behaviour by a widow for “hiding” evidence that her husband might still be alive if he had been properly treated in an ambulance. The Department of Health denounced [...]

Nearly half of England’s ambulance trusts are taking too long to respond to life-threatening emergencies

Another senior member of staff has left the East of England Ambulance Service