Delays in ambulances handing over patients at an NHS trust's hospitals have fallen but more needs to be done, a meeting has ...
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East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) has said it cannot improve alone after recording the worst average response times to the most serious calls in 2025. NHS data shows category one patients in the ...
Record numbers of patients are making their own way to A&E without waiting for an ambulance, a study suggests. Long response times and scenes of emergency vehicles queuing outside hospitals are ...
Figures show that 69 patients spent more than eight hours in ambulances waiting to be admitted to Shropshire’s acute hospitals last December.
NHS 111, the non-emergency helpline set up to ease pressure on the emergency services, actually increased the use of ambulances and emergency care services during its first year of operation, a study ...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2022/12/07: Ambulances belonging to the London Ambulance Service are parked at St. Thomas' Hospital. More than 10,000 NHS ambulance staff from nine NHS hospital trusts in ...