Every incident paramedics attend in a day will be ‘live-tweeted’ during a massive Twitter experiment. Crews from the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) will take part in the ‘tweetathon’ to give people a rare insight into what they do. A member of the trust’s communications team will accompany the crew as an ‘observer’ to tweet [...]

Greater Manchester’s ambulance service has gone from one of the worst in the country to one of the best – after being threatened with huge fines. The North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) came under fire from health bosses last year after failing to get to enough 999 calls on time. Now, new figures reveal the [...]

Merseyside ambulance staff will definitely be sent to help cover the London Olympic Games. Some North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) board members have expressed concern about the effect the move will have on performance. The trust confirmed 36 staff, including frontline paramedics, will be sent to cover the event. The Daily Post revealed last year [...]

Ambulance crews were stopped from helping a seriously injured man for almost an hour because paramedics could have been put in danger by brawling yobs, it is claimed. The 28-year-old man suffered a serious head injury in a brawl shortly after leaving a party in Eldon Street at 3am on Sunday. He is fighting for [...]

What were you doing on Christmas Eve? If you were wrapping presents in front of the fire, having drinks with friends or stuffing yourself with mince pies, spare a thought for the people working in A&E over the festive season. You’d think that Christmas would be a time to spare a thought over whether or [...]

A coroner has labelled the ambulance service system ‘daft’ following the death of a pensioner

Ambulance bosses failed to keep a promise to allow paramedics more flexibility over where to take patients for treatment

A drunken man who assaulted a paramedic as he tried to help him has been warned he faces a possible prison sentence

Two paramedics needed hospital treatment when they were attacked by their patient

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