South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) and South Central Strategic Health Authority have created a viral campaign with Rocket Science, part of Twofour Group, to show how misusing 999 costs lives. The project, which aims to help tackle hoax calling and inappropriate use of the ambulance service, revolves around a YouTube video, supported by an online [...]

A campaign to stop bogus and inappropriate calls to the region’s ambulance service is launched today. Frustrated bosses and crews at South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) want to stamp out abuse of the 999 system which saw them receive 1,235 hoax calls last year. They were also faced with a deluge of absurd requests including [...]

Hampshire’s ambulance service provider is the best in England. And to prove it South Central Ambulance Service scooped the Ambulance Trust of the Year gong at the Health Businesses Awards ceremony held at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. The regional ambulance service which also covers Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, fought off competition for the title, from the [...]

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 [...]

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.

A biker lying injured in the road after falling from his motorcycle died after he was run over by an Ambulance responding to a separate 999 call. Michael James Colley, 33, from Calne, had come off his Suzuki GSXR in the early hours of Sunday morning as he rode along the A4 at Black Dog [...]

A paramedic from Trowbridge who was called out to the aftermath of a policeman’s murder in Trowbridge has retired after 40 years with the ambulance service

An injured 96-year-old was left shivering on a pavement for more than an hour – because an ambulance crew was having dinner

A South Central Ambulance Service boss said it could not get to 75 per cent of seriously ill patients within eight minutes without peoples’ help

More than half of stroke patients taken to Basingstoke hospital by ambulance were misdiagnosed by the 999 call system, a new study reveals