NHS patients more likely to die when ambulance crews off sick, study shows

Unexpected unit shortages successful ambulance services are costing lives, with patients importantly much apt to dice wrong 24 hours erstwhile ambulance workers are disconnected sick, according to caller research. The study, by researchers astatine the Universities of York and Surrey, suggests that older people, those with the astir superior conditions and patients needing attraction during engaged wintertime periods are the astir affected by ambulance unit shortages.