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 ...

Hopefully, none of you reading this have ever had the misfortune to require calling 999 to request an emergency ambulance. Despite this, the service does receive a significant number of calls. What is ...

Cold weather has hit much of the country over the past week (library image) An ambulance service has seen nearly a fifth more calls to its 999 control room since the cold spell arrived last week.

BAD parking on a residential Cheshire street hindered an ambulance attending a 999 call. Cheshire Police is urging residents ...

CALLING 999 for an ambulance can be one of the most stressful situations you can find yourself in, and many will often find themselves unsure of what to do next while waiting for emergency services.

Ambulance service call handlers have described how they dealt with "unprecedented" numbers of 999 calls. South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) dealt with 22,500 calls between 5 and 11 January, ...

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 Welsh Ambulance Service in the past year. Of the 426,116 calls to the ...