A man who died after a drinking game should have been taken to hospital by paramedics, an inquest has heard. Daniel Cripps, 22, became “completely out of it” after drinking 14 shots of vodka at a house party in Newport. Paramedics were called but left him to sleep if off. He became ill and died. [...]

A paramedic who slapped a female patient across the face has been suspended for 12 months at a disciplinary hearing. Philip Hillier, 53, was found guilty of misconduct by a Health Professions Council panel (HPC). They ruled he had shown no remorse over the treatment of a woman he believed was faking injury in Cardiff [...]

Paramedics decide which accident and emergency department they will take patients to, a health chief has assured a watchdog. Hywel Dda Health Board chairman Chris Martin gave that message to Carmarthenshire Community Health Council when they quizzed him over claims hospitals were bypassing Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli. ​They feared that could be creating “massaged” [...]

Monmouth MP David Davies met ambulance service bosses to discuss concerns over slow 999 response times. Mr Davies called the meeting following two cases in the county involving the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust. An inquest into the death of Jacqueline Davies, 49, from Monmouth, heard she died in hospital froma hypoxic brain injury and probable [...]

A mother suffering a heart attack was kept waiting for 45 minutes by paramedics even though she lives just two doors away from an ambulance station. Health chiefs were today investigating after Louise Lewis, 36, called 999 when she was struck down with stabbing chest pains. An operator told the mother-of-two, from Llanelli, South Wales, [...]

Latest figures show the Welsh Ambulance service received just more than 31,000 emergency calls in October – up 6.9% on September and up by 4% compared with October 2010. via WalesOnline.

A woman endured a night of excruciating pain after shattering her leg in a fall – because an ambulance did not come for six-and-a-half hours

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

Six crumbling ambulance stations are at risk of being shut down because they’re in such bad repair

Almost 300 addresses in Wales have been “flagged” as potential problems by the Welsh Ambulance Service, Plaid Cymru AM Janet Ryder has been told