Medical equipment used to revive heart attack patients was so poorly maintained that machines were on the brink of running out of battery power, it emerged today. Some defibrillators were flashing warning lights alerting paramedics they were about to go dead, a report to councillors in Staffordshire has revealed. Bosses reported the problem to the [...]

An ambulance service previously dubbed the worst in the country has improved its performance in reaching the most seriously ill and injured patients. Department of Health statistics from November showed that East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) was above the national target of reaching 75 per cent of such casualties within eight minutes. EMAS has gone [...]

More than 770 hours were wasted by ambulances waiting to offload patients at Staffordshire A&E units. Crews are given a target of half an hour to drop off patients. But figures from the West Midlands Ambulance Service show in the first nine months of the year, ambulances sat outside the University Hospital of North Staffordshire’s [...]

Ambulances will be diverted from overstretched hospitals around the Black Country and patients will be treated elsewhere to help A&E units cope with the traditional winter surge in demand, it has emerged today. Temporary diversions are designed to allow hospitals the chance to clear backlogs of patients and free up staff. West Midlands Ambulance Service [...]

Good performance by the Vauxhall Movano in a front-line accident and emergency ambulance role has led West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust to order a further 64 vehicle

An NHS ambulance trust is set to win back the work to ferry 600 patients a day to hospital appointments in North Staffordshire

Ambulances are clean, patients are treated with dignity and respect and 999 calls are answered quickly according to an independent survey

Author and retired ambulanceman Les Pringle has published a book describing his 30 years of service with West Midlands Ambulance service

West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is setting up a temporary unit in Birmingham to treat patients with minor injuries and illnesses during the Bank Holiday weekend

Former Staffordshire ambulance boss Roger Thayne will tomorrow throw down a string of challenges to executives now running the service