Ambulance Service

• 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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• Automated 999 call-handling system causing fatal ambulance delays

  • PostedSeptember 19, 2019

  Three people have died after receiving delayed care from the South East Coast Ambulance Service, caused as a result of failures with a computer call-handling system. Mrs Filby rang an...

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• Ambulance service not hitting 111 call targets as a result of low pay

  • PostedMarch 14, 2019

  111 call targets are not being met by The South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS), and it is thought that a lack of recruitment as a result of low pay is...

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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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• Heart attack victim launches clinical negligence case

  • PostedFebruary 15, 2012

  A man who was forced to wait outside a hospital in the south-west of England for 25 minutes despite suffering a heart attack is to launch a clinical negligence case....

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