Hospital ward calls 999 for ambulance to move patient 400 metres 'to replace catheter'
A hospital phoned for an ambulance so an elderly patient could be driven 400m to A&E to have a catheter replaced, says his ...
Sunday World2h
Woman jailed for calling 999 over fifty times asking for lifts and to get heating fixed
This is the time-wasting pensioner jailed this week after she made more than FIFTY 999 calls asking for lifts to hospital and ...
Wales' most 'inappropriate' emergency calls include finger stuck in beer bottle
The Welsh Ambulance Service said some of the most "inappropriate" calls to its 999 emergency number in the past year include ...
‘999? I’ve chipped a tooth!’ – Welsh Ambulance Service urges against inappropriate calls from public
The service took a range of inappropriate calls in 2024 ranging from people chipping their teeth to those being locked out of ...
The Leader2h
North Wales 999 call-handlers to move into new home
Emergency response call-handlers in North Wales will move to a new state-of-the-art call centre in St Asaph this spring - after their current ...
BBC9d
Only call 999 in emergency - ambulance service
People in Jersey should not call 999 unless immediate medical assistance is needed, the ambulance service says ... it advised. "Non-emergency calls may cause delays in us responding to life ...
Lost keys and nightmare among needless 999 calls
A set of lost keys and a bad nightmare were among needless 999 calls to the South West's ambulance service, bosses say. The ...
South Wales Argus on MSN6d
The strangest 999 calls received by the Welsh Ambulance Service
The Welsh Ambulance Service has shared some of the inappropriate 999 calls it received over the past year. They include a ...
Some of the unbelievable time-wasting 999 calls made to local ambulance service
26 per cent did not require an ambulance response. But some of the 'inappropriate' reasons why callers chose to dial 999 seem ...
'He shouldn't have died': Family of Corby dad say they were failed by ambulance service
Peter Hynd called 999 about chest pains - but paramedics 'failed' to take him to the hospital or tell him how serious his ...
Metro9d
Hospital ward calls 999 for ambulance to move patient 400 metres ‘to replace catheter’
An ambulance service spokesperson has confirmed they received an ’emergency 999 call’ that was categories as ‘C2’, the second most serious call. But Ms Sippitts said her father – who has ...