The East Riding of Yorkshire's ambulance service has won an award for being environmentally friendly. The service -which is more famous for it's slow response time and high patient death ratio- began its radical environmental overhaul last year.
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The British ambulance service has cancelled all leave for Monday morning as it gets ready for Black Spot Monday, the day of the year when there are more road traffic accidents than any other.
"It's the same every year around this time," said ambul...
British ambulances have been branded as too noisy, too bright and too aggressively drive by The Patient Advocate Group.
"Do these ambulance drivers not understand that they're carrying sick people?" asked Paul Lay. "The ill and injured don't need...
In a shock statement issued today by the UK Fire and Ambulance service, union representatives have decided that its members will no longer be able to attend emergencies, unless they are of a very minor nature.
The Fire Brigade is being prevented f...
The ambulance service is having to upgrade its vehicles because some patients are becoming too fat, information from freedom of information requests show.
Every service in the UK has commenced buying specialist equipment, which includes wider stre...
With news hitting the headlines this week that ambulances are to get bigger, to accommodate the bulging waist lines of the U.K public, at a great cost to the NHS, more shocks are to hit the beleaguered service this week.
Tommy Windsail, spokesman...
Congress has passed a bill which will standardize the siren tones used by emergency services across the county for the first time. Rather than use the common Whoop and Wail style siren, a two-tone siren similar to the old sirens used in the UK and p...
An ambulance crew of two in Brighton was today suspended, after allegedly 'trying to keep a patient alive'. A telephone operator received an emergency 999 call last month from an injured man, but kept the line open after she heard the crew suggesting...
London - Ambulance driver Colin Wright has been reprimanded for allowing his wife Eleanor from driving with him while on duty. Mr. Wright and his wife had reconciled personal transportation issues by having Eleanor join Colin on his daily shift of du...
Road accident victims who would normally require emergency treatment in hospital, and a ride in an ambulance to get it, are being advised to travel there in a taxi, after it was revealed in a report that ambu...
Only in America as the saying goes. EMS services reported today that ambulances will now be equipped with cranes. The cranes will be attached to the top of the ambulances and will fold to fit lengthwise when not in use. The measure was prompted by th...
HOUSTON - The city of Houston ran out of ambulances and there was no room at the morgue after more than 1800 fans died of boredom during an 18-inning game between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astro's. Unaware that an attempt was being made to...