Aug 29 2008
THE amount being spent on taxis for patients by the North West Ambulance Service is nothing sort of astonishing. More than £300,000 has been sucked from the budget to pay for taxis for patients, as there are not enough drivers for the service’s own vehicles....
Jul 9 2008
MERSEYSIDE’S ambulance service spent £35,000 on taxis in just one month – because it did not have enough staff to man its own vehicles....
Feb 18 2008
MORE than 6,000 cases of ambulance crews spending up to an hour at North West hospitals waiting to hand over patients to casualty departments were recorded last year....
Jan 2 2008
THE region’s ambulance service has reported one of its busiest New Year’s Eve nights ever, with more than 700 call-outs....
Jan 2 2008
THE region’s ambulance service has reported one of its busiest New Year’s Eve nights ever, with more than 700 call-outs....