Even with all the wonders that modern medicine has to offer, it is clear that patients remain at significant risk while receiving care. And no more so than when in the care of the ambulance service.

Sending every patient to hospital is an "outdated" approach to delivering healthcare and no longer the most effective process ...

NHS 111, the non-emergency helpline set up to ease pressure on the emergency services, actually increased the use of ambulances and emergency care services during its first year of operation, a study ...

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust has unveiled major changes in how patients will be treated across the east of England.

Frontline emergency workers have warned LBC that patients are facing even longer waits for hospital care as a result of NHS trusts cutting the use of private ambulances services in a bid to save money ...

Bosses of an NHS ambulance service have spoken out about a little-known power. The information emerged after the devastating impact of one 'criminal offence' was exposed in a poignant BBC One series.

A cyber-attack on an NHS supplier has left two ambulance trusts serving millions of people without access to electronic patient records, it has emerged. Swedish healthcare IT firm Ortivus said in a ...

Paramedics are on the very front line of emergency care workers. They are tasked with being the first to arrive to treat patients at the scene and must use their judgement to make life-saving ...

Thousands of ambulance workers including paramedics, technicians, emergency care assistants and call handlers struck today at 10 of the 11 regional ambulance services in England and Wales. Ambulance ...

More than £2.5m has been paid out in damages to injured healthcare workers by NHS trusts operating in Norfolk and Suffolk ...