An elderly woman has died in Northampton after waiting nearly an hour-and-a-half for an ambulance when she fell over. Phyllis Asten, 87, was letting out her dog in the garden of her bungalow in Spencer on Tuesday when she fell, her family said. Her nine-year-old great-grandson Callum Wright was at her house and he raised [...]

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, [...]

A woman endured a night of excruciating pain after shattering her leg in a fall – because an ambulance did not come for six-and-a-half hours

An MSP was shocked to find crews have “no duty to turn up within any particular timeframe”

A man with a suspected crushed foot lay in agony for an hour and 20 minutes while he waited for an ambulance that never came

A woman from Rotherham has said she feels “disgusted” it took nearly 10 hours for an ambulance to take her home after dialysis treatment

South Central Ambulance NHS Trust has apologised for allowing a woman to wait for more than two hours for paramedics after she fell outside her friend’s Hampshire home

The father of a six-year-old boy with type 1 diabetes has voiced concerns about emergency care provision in the Omagh district after his son was forced to wait around four hours to receive vital medication. Shortly after midnight last Wednesday morning, it was discovered that the young boy’s blood sugar levels were dangerously low