Ambulance delays

• Patient Groups concerned over the delays in 999 attendances

  • PostedJanuary 16, 2023

  It is a sad fact that ambulances in England are taking over 90 minutes, on average, to reach those patients who are experiencing the most serious of emergencies, such as...

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• 20-year-old woman died following routine appendix operation

  • PostedMay 14, 2021

  An inquest has begun into the death of a 20-year-old woman who died from sepsis following a routine appendix operation. Chloe Rideout first attended Derriford Hospital in Plymouth after she...

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• A&E department rated ‘inadequate’ by NHS watchdog

  • PostedFebruary 26, 2021

  An A&E department has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after it was found to have significant delays in admitting and discharging patients, poor infection risk control...

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• Extreme pressure on NHS leads to A&E wait times reaching record high

  • PostedJanuary 10, 2020

  Last month there were record-long delays in A&E departments around England, new data has revealed. One in five patients requiring emergency care had to wait over the target four hours...

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• Six-year-old Suffolk boy dies after ambulance service failures

  • PostedOctober 24, 2019

  Oliver Hall, six, of Halesworth, Suffolk, died from meningitis in October 2017 after ambulance control room staff failed to inform paramedics of crucial information which could have saved his life....

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• Man dies in extreme pain after hour long ambulance delay

  • PostedJanuary 10, 2019

  Tony Lane, 54, died in extreme pain after his wife was told that an ambulance would take up to an hour to arrive as he was suffering from a stroke....

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