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Emergency performance dips as winter nears

2024-10-10T11:00:00+01:00

Ambulance response times rose dramatically last month with urgent care performance also worsening as winter appeared to strike early.

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NHSE admits ‘urgent’ ambulance target will be missed in capital

2024-09-06T11:40:00+01:00

NHS England has agreed ambulance trusts can meet ‘realistic’ response times for ‘urgent’ ambulance calls including some heart attacks and stroke this winter, citing ‘service pressures, resources and demand’.

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Five trusts join forces on AI and procurement

2024-05-23T11:59:00+01:00

Five ambulance service trusts are forming a group, which will include joint projects on artificial intelligence, and a potential move to standardisation and joint procurement of vehicles.

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Four regions still without extra ambulances promised by NHSE

2024-05-21T04:59:00+01:00

Four regions that successfully bid for dedicated ambulances for mental health patients are still without the specialist vehicles, despite growing concerns the NHS is unable to respond to people in crisis.

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Waiting times focus ‘overshadows misconduct’, finds NHSE review

2024-02-15T12:55:00+00:00

Ambulance trusts have often prioritised capacity and response times over dealing with cases of misconduct, a review of culture in the sector for NHS England has found.

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HSJ Podcast: Missing Sunak’s pledge

2023-07-14T05:00:00+01:00

This week bureau chief Ben Clover is joined by colleagues to discuss some of the biggest stories ahead of the junior doctors’ strike.

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Trust withheld key details of deaths, review finds

2023-07-12T05:18:00+01:00

An ambulance service has pledged to overhaul how it makes disclosures to coroners after a review found that details of care failings were withheld in a number of cases.

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‘Beginnings of safety culture’ emerging at ‘cover-up’ trust

2023-07-07T05:59:00+01:00

An ambulance trust at the centre of an inquiry into alleged cover-ups has shown signs of improvement, according to the Care Quality Commission.

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Thousands of English NHS 999 calls answered in Wales

2023-03-21T12:44:00+00:00

Thousands of 999 calls are being transferred to the Welsh Ambulance Service because they are taking more than five minutes to answer in England, HSJ can reveal.

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Striking staff drop cover for strokes and suspected heart attacks

2023-02-20T12:27:00+00:00

Striking ambulance workers in two regions have said for the first time that they will only answer immediately life-threatening calls — abandoning previous agreements to cover some Category 2 incidents.

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Staff at final ambulance trust vote to join strikes

2023-02-08T11:44:00+00:00

Staff at the East of England ambulance trust – the only one to escape strike action so far – have voted to join the industrial action.

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Paramedics not sent to quarter of urgent calls, admits trust

2023-02-02T05:47:00+00:00

Some ambulance trusts are not sending paramedics to up to around a quarter of their most serious calls, according to figures obtained by HSJ.

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Exclusive: Ambulance crews urged to conserve oxygen

2022-12-30T07:48:00+00:00

Ambulance staff are being urged to conserve oxygen supplies because of a national shortage of small cylinders used both on ambulances and in some A&E departments.

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Two full days of ambulance strikes announced for January

2022-12-22T18:04:00+00:00

Unison has announced two 24-hour ambulance worker strikes in January, adding it will start balloting members for further strikes in the spring.

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Ambulance strike dates and trusts revealed

2022-12-06T12:47:00+00:00

Thousands of ambulance staff across England will go on strike during the festive period this month in a dispute over pay, three unions have announced.

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Four in five trusts yet to reach digitisation target

2022-11-23T06:00:00+00:00

Only one in five trusts has reached the level of digitisation required by 2025 – more than three years after the target was set, tech chiefs have revealed.

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Female CEOs say ambulance service culture ‘deeply wrong’

2022-11-10T06:28:00+00:00

The only two female ambulance chief executives in the country have said there is something ‘deeply wrong’ with the culture in ambulance services.

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Deaths inquiry will exclude dozens of concerning cases, says whistleblower

2022-10-13T04:02:00+01:00

An inquiry into alleged efforts to cover up care failings at an ambulance trust has been criticised by a key whistleblower for being too limited in scope.

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Lawyers warned trust that staff could ‘pick and choose’ documents for coroners

2022-09-20T06:20:00+01:00

An ambulance trust accused of withholding key evidence from coroners was previously warned its staff needed training to ‘understand the real risk of committing criminal offences’ in relation to inquests into patient deaths.

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Revealed: Surge in serious incidents caused by ambulance delays

2022-04-20T11:33:00+01:00

Ambulance trusts are seeing rising numbers of serious incidents resulting from delays in reaching patients, research by HSJ has uncovered.