Waiting times for accident and emergency patients have reached a nine-year high - with more patients having to endure a four-hour wait. The monitor...
A 43-year-old man has cut off his own penis in a residential street in Cornwall. The naked man used a kitchen knife as he performed the amputation...
Ambulance workers are to stage a 24-hour strike in a long-running row over issues including cuts. Unite said its 450 members in the Yorkshire servi...
Updated 15:52, 10 December 2012: More details on the incident A 75-year-old patient has died after the ambulance she was travelling in crashed off ...
Three men believed to be in their late teens and early 20s died after their car and an articulated lorry collided. A third person was taken to hosp...
A medical student died after telling her flatmates not to call an ambulance, despite complaining of feeling unwell and experiencing difficulty breathi...
Emergency service drivers responding to 999 calls should not be prosecuted for injuries and even deaths that arise from accidents they are involved in...
Two men have been arrested following a dog attack which left 10 people needing hospital treatment. Sussex Police went to Marline Road in St Leonard...
A mother whose two-year-old son died in a head-on collision has also lost her unborn baby, police said today. She and her husband remain in a criti...
Four people have died in a car crash, police said today. A Volkswagen Passat and a Vauxhall Astra collided on the A39 at Cannington, near Bridgwate...
There are close calls, then there are seriously close calls. This is definitely a one of the latter, showing a air-headed pedestrian wandering acr...
A Liverpol couple are demanding to know the truth after their autistic son died choked to death on a sweet while an ambulance failed to find his house...
A doctor is being hailed a hero after performing an emergency amputation on a worker’s arm while perched 100ft off the ground. Dr James Hickman ...
Everybody knows 999 is the number to ring in an emergency, but unfortunately some idiots dial it for less important matters -- like the man who called...
An investigation has been launched after an injured elderly woman was forced to wait in the cold for an ambulance for an hour and 45 minutes. Doree...
An investigation has been launched after an ambulance called at a widow's home to pick up her husband for a hospital appointment nearly four years aft...
A suicidal woman doused herself in petrol and set herself alight at a Sainsbury's filling station. As the flames engulfed her horrified cashiers ra...
A 12-month-old baby girl has been burned after a firework hit her in the face. The incident was the second firework-related accident to happen to a...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A non-emergency telephone number for around-the-clock access to NHS services is to be rolled out nationally. The 111 line, whi...
Have you ever nearly choked on a piece of food while you're eating? It's one of the worst feelings, and within seconds, panic can set in, but normally it's a false alarm. However, what if it wasn't? In the back of your mind you hope, you believe, that somebody will know how to help.
