Many civilians wounded amid intense fighting in #Sudan. #DoctorsWithoutBorders / #MedecinsSansFrontieres (#MSF) in El Fasher, North #Darfur: "The majority of the wounded are civilians who were caught in the crossfire—among them are many children." #Hospitals closed. Supplies & #ambulances cannot go where needed https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/sudan-many-civilians-wounded-amid-intense-fighting #humanitarian
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A crippling lack of ambulances has seen hundreds of desperately ill patients rushed to hospital by taxi at a cost of £129,000.
East of England Ambulance service ferried 27 critical condition patients by cab between April and November last year, an #FOI shows.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/critically-ill-patients-rushed-hospital-29374294
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism #hospitals #ambulances #NHSCrisis
More #FOIFriday stories: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/03/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-10-3-2023-foifriday/
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2 EMS Workers Face Murder Charges after Strapping Man Face-Down on Gurney | https://www.theroot.com/2-ems-workers-face-murder-charges-after-strapping-man-f-1850095676 #medicalequipment #elijahmcclain #petercadigan #peggyfinley #georgefloyd #earlmoorejr #ambulances #law2ccrime #stretcher #danwright #earlmoore #ambulance #finley #wcia #beds
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#FOI shows East Midlands Ambulance has spent £38,644,000 on private and voluntary ambulances to plug gaps over the past three years.
This works out at an average of £35,211.32 a day.
https://www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/local-news/east-midlands-ambulance-service-spent-8089594
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism #Ambulances #NHS
More #FOIFriday stories: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/01/freedom-of-information-in-the-news--week-ending-3-2-2023--foifriday/
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#Ambulances #costing #millions, but #where’s the #money for #paramedics to #staff them.
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More than 20 addresses in Fife have been ‘red-flagged’ by ambulance crews - meaning they won’t attend without a police presence.
The #FOI by the Scottish Tories showed over 450 addresses across Scotland had been red flagged.
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism #Ambulances #Scotland
More #FOIFriday stories: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/01/freedom-of-information-in-the-news--week-ending-27-1-2023--foifriday/
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Data obtained through #FOI, showed that during November 2022, patients in Halton and Warrington on a Category 4 call waited on average four hours and 47 minutes.
By December this had stretched out to 13 hours and 47 minutes.
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/foi-data-shows-pressures-on-ambulance-service-in-halton/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism #AmbulanceWaits #Ambulances #NHS
More #FOIFriday stories: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/01/freedom-of-information-in-the-news--week-ending-13-1-2023--foifriday/
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La vista delle ambulanze in fila per ore fuori dagli ospedali è diventata dolorosamente familiare in Galles, che il mese scorso ha registrato i peggiori tempi di attesa mai registrati per le chiamate di emergenza pericolose per la vita. Ma il problema è tutt'altro che isolato. Anche i servizi di amb...
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#20Dicembre #Wales #GreatBritain #NationalHealthService #Ambulances
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One Day With an Ambulance in Britain: Long Waits, Rising Frustration https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance-delay-nhs-strike.html #HealthInsuranceandManagedCare #EmergencyMedicalTreatment #NationalHealthService #GreatBritain #Ambulances #Hospitals #Wales
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"Caring is in the DNA of ambulance staff and their #NHS colleagues. They want to save lives, but many can no longer do the jobs they love properly"
This article explains the dire state of England’s ambulance service and the desperation of the people in it, who work to save lives and who know lives are being lost because of years of government neglect.
#Strikes #UKPolitics #SaveOurNHS
#Ambulances #AmbulanceStrikes
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/if-nhs-employees-dont-take-28707002
#ambulancestrikes #Ambulances #saveournhs #ukpolitics #strikes #nhs