East Midlands Ambulance Service has lost its appeal against a decision not to award it the contract for running non-emergency transport. The regional trust received about £20 million a year for running the Patient Transport Service, with 550 staff involved in the scheme. But health bosses put the contract out to tender last year. NSL [...]

East Midlands Ambulance Service has again failed to hit target times for responding to emergency calls. The figures for December, show that EMAS reached 72.8 per cent of the most serious calls – known as category A8 – within eight minutes.The target is 75 per cent, and the national average for December was 74 per [...]

Eight months ago it was named the worst ambulance service for response times – today we can reveal its staff take the most sick days in the NHS. East Midland Ambulance Service (EMAS) has come under fire again, including from its own staff, after new figures showed it had the worst staff absence of any [...]

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, [...]

A major trauma centre, which will save more lives of those seriously injured across the East Midlands, will be created in Nottingham. The Queen’s Medical Centre, which is run by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), is being designated as the East Midlands major trauma centre which means patients will now get 24/7 access to [...]

An ambulance service previously dubbed the worst in the country has improved its performance in reaching the most seriously ill and injured patients. Department of Health statistics from November showed that East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) was above the national target of reaching 75 per cent of such casualties within eight minutes. EMAS has gone [...]

EMAS have lost out on a £20m contract to provide non-emergency patient transport in favour of private sector companies. East Midlands Ambulance Service who currently provide the service would have used the contract – worth £19.9m annually – to buy a brand new, eco-friendly fleet. Instead, the East Midlands Procurement and Commissioning Transformation on behalf [...]

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 presentation on East Midlands Ambulance Service’s bid to gain foundation trust status got a mixed response from councillors

A judge told a driver she displayed “moronic stupidity” by deliberately and repeatedly blocking an ambulance which was carrying a dying patient