Ambulance & Paramedic Scotland’s first charity-funded air ambulance takes to the skies

• Coroner rules failure of care for paramedic who refused to administer drugs
  A coroner has concluded a failure of care verdict by an ambulance service after a man died from a heart attack following a paramedic’s refusal to administer drugs.
• £9.5m on upgrading Welsh ambulance service following damning reviews
  Almost £9.5m is to be spent upgrading the Welsh ambulance fleet, BBC News reports.
• Paramedic bitten by patient
  A paramedic was bitten by a patient he was trying to help, according to reports.
Elderly man killed in ambulance crash named
An elderly man who was killed when the ambulance he was travelling in hit a tree has been named by police.

Major revamp needed for ambulance service
Huge changes are needed in the running of the Welsh Ambulance Service, the government has warned following a hard-hitting review.

£50,000 appeal for air ambulance which attended hen party crash
Friends of an 18-year-old girl who was killed when a hen party's minibus crashed, aim to raise £50,000 for the air ambulance service, BBC News reports.

Wales’ ambulances failed to meet national response time targets
Ambulances in Wales failed to meet national response time targets for life-threatening calls last month in every one of their local authority areas, BBC News reports.

Ambulance stations for sale in place of hubs
West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has put up seven stations for sale in a re-organisation of how it is to operate across the region.

Private ambulances used by the NHS not inspected
Scores of private ambulance companies have never been inspected properly by the health regulator, putting some of the most vulnerable at further risk, it has been revealed.