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Strokes or gynaecological emergencies, road collisions where someone is trapped or young children who are unwell. now, in the north—east of england, another example, the responsibility depends on union that staff belong to so gmb members will respond to life—threatening calls and unison will respond to some category to calls and if we look at the welsh ambulance service they categorise calls differently and say that union members will be responding to all immediately life—threatening red c...

In wales it is just gmb union members who are striking today, who make up about a quarter of the staff who work for the welsh ambulance service here. the issues are very similar across the board as we have been hearing, earlier in that piece. and yesterday with the nurses strike, it was to do with pay, workload and people actually on the ground able to do theirjob. in the last set of figures in wales which came in october, usually the red calls make up 15% of all of the urgent calls but only hal...

Hes probably not even aware of what he was getting involved in at that particular time. he also told us he had been asked to pick up covid—positive patients but refused. however, a separate taxi company in great yarmouth has a different view. if they phone up for a taxi to take somebody from home to an a&e department, nine times out of ten, thats a quicker option than an ambulance, so we are more than happy to help out. nhs england told us these figures account forjust 0.3% of ambulance call�...

Of ambulance call—outs. emergency ambulances are sent to life—threatening calls, and taxis are only used to transport other patients when it is clinically appropriate. while the welsh ambulance service added, a taxi is only used for red calls after an ambulance resource has arrived at the scene and clinically assessed the patient. i was gobsmacked, really, to think, in this day and age, they are using taxis to transport emergency cases to hospital like that. if that�*s the only resource th...