South West Ambulance Service tweets 'it is going to be an exceptionally busy few days'.
The service joined a hospital consultant in urging people to make more use of the NHS 111 service
Ambulance chiefs in the South West have urged people to only dial 999 in a life-threatening emergency.The service joined a hospital consultant in urging people to make more use of thePeople arriving by ambulance faced long waits warned Kate Lissett, acute medical consultant at Torbay Hospital. "At the moment we have a triple whammy, we have high levels of flu, we have high levels of Covid and we also have sickness in our staff because they're unwell as well," she said."The impact is that people are taking longer to see us, they are taking longer in our emergency departments and if you arrive by ambulance many people are waiting much longer in ambulances than we would like them to.