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 [...]

Ambulance bosses have defended claims that patients lives’ are being put at risk because of overstretched staff. According to a paramedic working in Hull for Yorkshire Ambulance Service, staff are stretched to the limit, often working 12 hour shifts and sometimes up to 13 or 14 hours, without a meal break. He claimed over Christmas [...]

Ambulance Systems Indicators for period November 2011 and Ambulance Clinical Outcomes for period August 2011 The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health: Ambulance System Indicators; Category A 8 minute response time, category A 19 minute response time, call abandonment rate, re-contact rate following discharge of care, time to answer call, time [...]

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 [...]

A former head of the Welsh Ambulance Service says he is shocked at the way it is run, three years after he resigned claiming lives were at risk

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

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

South Central Ambulance Service must address “serious concerns” among the public over response times that are not hitting national targets

New figures published today show A&E departments in England have met the operational standard for 98% of patients to be treated within four hours of arrival at A&E over the last year

Merseyside’s ambulance service is taking too long to respond to emergency calls, according to new figures