Media Clips ... 1987 onwards ...
PM CRITICISED AMBULANCE FAILINGS BEFORE TERROR ATTACK
By: Duncan Gardham 18 June 2019 David Cameron had told the ambulance service that it was unprepared to deal with a potential terrorist incident years before the London Bridge attacks, in which Paramedics took three hours to enter the scene. |
WOMAN, 92, IS FOUND DEAD AFTER 3 HOUR WAIT ... 400ft AWAY FROM AMBULANCE BASE
'The LAS failed to make a proper note of the symptoms of the deceased when these were phoned through.' By: Ross Lydall, Health Editor ... Evening Standard 25 September 2018 |
FASTER 999 RESPONSE FOR CRITICAL CASES MEANS OTHER PATIENTS WILL WAIT LONGER
By: Ross Lydall, Health Editor ... Evening Standard 30 October 2017 |
THOUSANDS OF AMBULANCE PATIENTS SUFFER A&E DELAYS DUE TO LACK OF BEDS
www.standard.co.uk Thousands of patients brought to hospital by ambulance are suffering delays getting into A&E because of a shortage of staff and beds. Some are spending in excess of two hours on trolleys in corridors or waiting areas, despite a 15-minute NHS target for them to be handed over. It also means London Ambulance Service crews, who wait alongside the patient, cannot respond to the next 999 call. |
30,000 PATIENTS QUEUE IN AMBULANCES FOR A&E ... They spend the equivalent of two years waiting outside hospitals
By: Ross Lydall, Health Editor ... Evening Standard 31 May 2016 |
TRIBUTES TO 'DEDICATED' PARAMEDIC WHO GAVE LONDON THE BOOZE BUS
By: Jame Micklethwaite, John Dunn and Ross Lydall ... Evening Standard 08 March 2016 |
LETTER TO THE EVENING STANDARD from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, Patients' Forum
14 December 2015 Your excellent article on London’s A&E crisis (‘London A&E patients hit by winter crisis’, December 9) exposes the chaos caused by the closure and massive under-funding of A&E Departments in West London. Cuts over the past few years have had the inevitable effect of leaving sick people having to wait appalling lengths of time for treatment. |
DON'T SEND PATIENTS TO A&E, LONDON GPs ARE TOLD AS HOSPITALS RUN OUT OF BEDS
By: Ross Lydall 11 December 2015 |
STUDENT DIED 'AFTER AMBULANCE CREW REFUSED TO TREAT HER'
By: Kiran Randhowa, Health Correspondent ... Evening Standard |
'MY DAUGHTER WAS IN AGONY - BUT THE AMBULANCE TOOK 50 MINUTES'
By: Karen Evennett ... The Best Magazine 11 June 1992 |