Two-thirds of the ambulances assigned to cover the south of the county were stranded outside A&E at Northampton General Hospital on another busy day for the overloaded emergency department, a patient has claimed. Tom Peterkin, of Hackleton, followed his partner to NGH where she was taken by ambulance after suffering chest pains. However on arrival, [...]

Monmouth MP David Davies met ambulance service bosses to discuss concerns over slow 999 response times. Mr Davies called the meeting following two cases in the county involving the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust. An inquest into the death of Jacqueline Davies, 49, from Monmouth, heard she died in hospital froma hypoxic brain injury and probable [...]

An East Yorkshire paramedic has claimed patients’ lives are being put at risk due to long shifts and a shortage of staff. The anonymous staff member also claimed that local crews were being sent elsewhere in the region to help those areas meet response targets. Yorkshire Ambulance Service said the service was not over stretched [...]

More than 770 hours were wasted by ambulances waiting to offload patients at Staffordshire A&E units. Crews are given a target of half an hour to drop off patients. But figures from the West Midlands Ambulance Service show in the first nine months of the year, ambulances sat outside the University Hospital of North Staffordshire’s [...]

Ambulances are facing delays when they take emergency patients to hospital in England, the BBC has learnt. Data provided by the 11 ambulance services showed all are experiencing difficulties handing over patients.

Ambulances will be diverted from overstretched hospitals around the Black Country and patients will be treated elsewhere to help A&E units cope with the traditional winter surge in demand, it has emerged today. Temporary diversions are designed to allow hospitals the chance to clear backlogs of patients and free up staff. West Midlands Ambulance Service [...]

A mother suffering a heart attack was kept waiting for 45 minutes by paramedics even though she lives just two doors away from an ambulance station. Health chiefs were today investigating after Louise Lewis, 36, called 999 when she was struck down with stabbing chest pains. An operator told the mother-of-two, from Llanelli, South Wales, [...]

An 88-year-old pensioner died after she was left lying on a freezing cold pavement for three hours while waiting for an ambulance, it has been alleged. It is thought Doreen Wignall fell on black ice causing a head injury as she crossed a bridge in Ludgershall, Wiltshire. via Mail Online.

SCAS are using a ‘split crew’ system in which only one worker stays with the patient so their crew mate can team up with another ambulance and reduce the number of vehicles queuing outside the hospital

A disabled pensioner lay on the floor after a fall for more than three hours after 999 operators said he was not a priority, his family have said