Fears over 999 ambulance responses in London were growing on Monday with unions and health services in the capital yet to strike a deal on serious conditions like heart attacks and strokes. Ambulance ...

AMBULANCE chiefs in Essex are looking into screening 999 calls so that an ambulance is only sent out to a real emergency.Essex Ambulance Service is working on a new strategy to ensure a more ...

The London Ambulance Service's 999 call system suffered a technical fault on Wednesday that resulted in having to revert back to handling calls using pen and paper notes. The issue — which arose on ...

An escaped pet alligator, a chipped tooth and a finger stuck in a beer bottle were just some of the bizarre 999 calls made to ...

The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call details of almost one million people. The disc was reported lost last week by courier TNT, and had been mislaid earlier ...

A hospital phoned for an ambulance so an elderly patient could be driven 400m to A&E to have a catheter replaced, says his daughter. Staff called 999, before paramedics arrived to transfer Brian Dunne ...