Quality and performance

New triage policy implicated in 44-year-old’s death

By 2023-06-14T05:44:00

Ambulance

An ambulance service says it has sped up clinical review of lower-priority calls, after a coroner said the new triage process — introduced in response to recent waiting time pressures — ‘will lead to further deaths’.

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