An MSP was shocked to find crews have “no duty to turn up within any particular timeframe”

Ambulance crews were warned to stay away from one of their Dundee stations after a possible swine flu case was transported to hospital

Shetland could get a further three ambulances should a group of islanders proposing a community run service succeed with their ambition

The First Minister welcomed the news but critics pointed out that the figures included untrained volunteers who attend the scenes of medical emergencies

A health board has been ordered to apologise after leaving a paralysed woman without food or water for 20 hours, in one of a series of errors in her treatment

Concerns have been raised for the welfare of elderly patients left on hospital trolleys for hours while they wait to be taken back to care homes

Please help support our ‘boys and gals in green’, the paramedics who do an outstanding job in difficult circumstances. With only one ambulance on duty at a time here now they must be kept very busy for their whole shift going straight from one incident to another, but still arrive and attend to their patients [...]