Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secamb said by calling 999 the public were not automatically going to get an ambulance [Mark Norman BBC] Ambulance service call ...

Ambulance services have seen a surge in 999 calls during the freezing weather gripping the UK, as paramedics brace for further demand with the arrival of Storm Goretti. Arctic air has plunged much of ...

The Welsh Ambulance Service revealed some of the most ridiculous calls it received this year — including a woman who lost her voice, a person who had eaten too much kebab and another person who’d ...

There are some things that ambulance call handlers cannot detect over the phone - and that's where Jackie Hatton-Bell comes in. She is one of 130 volunteers in Wales trained to attend the scene of 999 ...

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, ...