‘Get a lift to hospital,’ ambulance trust tells patients with suspected heart attacks

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Ambulance trusts have begun asking patients with heart attacks and strokes to get a lift to hospital with family or friends instead of waiting for an ambulance, because of high covid absences and ‘unprecedented’ surges in demand, HSJ has learned.

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