Shropshire Councillor for Ludlow North
Shropshire Councillor for Ludlow North
We have been concerned about the time people in Ludlow have to wait for an ambulance for a long while. Data from the winter just ended show that the wait for an emergency ambulance here is still lengthy and target…
The news in this week’s media on health is bleak. Yesterday, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said that a bad flu season was piling pressure on to services that were already critically overstretched. He claimed that…
Ambulance performance in Shropshire, and in many areas of the country, has been unacceptable for too long. Ludlow health campaigner and town councillor Darren Childs has recently detailed his second experience of not being able to get a 999 ambulance…
Councillors have welcomed the proposed “watershed review” in the ambulance crisis and related issues in Shropshire. The proposal for an inquiry into the growing delays with ambulances attending patients and handover times once the ambulances arrive at the county’s two…
Amid the political maelstrom of Wednesday, MPs found time to debate the continuing ambulance crisis (video). The debate was led by Wera Hobhouse, Lib Dem MP for Bath. There were important contributions made by Lib Dem, Labour and Conservative members.…
If you going to fall ill and likely to require an ambulance, you better get on with it. Certainly, don’t leave it until 17 August. Ambulance provision by West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has been struggling for a couple of…