17 August 2022 is Ambulance Domesday in the West Midlands
andybodders 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…
Tories chuck inquiry into ambulance crisis into the long grass
The inquiry will never happen now. A motion for an inquiry into the current ambulance crisis was kicked into touch today by Shropshire Council Conservatives. A wrecking amendment was presented…
Covid Watch 179: Cases fall as testing begins to plummet but hospitals still in critical condition
Cases in England and in Shropshire are continuing to fall. We must though be cautious about numbers after the government withdrew free testing and closed testing centres across the country…
Helen Morgan MP: Shropshire ambulance handover times criticised in Commons debate
Helen Morgan, MP for North Shropshire, secured an adjournment debate in the House of Commons last Thursday as MPs departed to their constituencies and beyond for the Easter recess. Excluding…
Ambulance handover delays at Shropshire’s A&Es are a national disgrace – an inquiry is needed
Significant delays in handovers from ambulances to A&E departments continue at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. This winter, half of ambulances arriving at the two A&Es experienced handover delays of 30…