Understanding when to phone an ambulance, take someone to A&E, or to their GP is a critical decision. Particularly when the NHS is in overwhelm! Ambulances may struggle to get to you as the A&E departments are gridlocked and ambulances are therefore queuing for hours to deliver patients to A&E. Patients are spending many hours on trolleys in A&E or in the back of ambulances, waiting to be seen. The London Ambulance Service is receiving around 82,000 999 emergency calls a day. More than 20,000 higher than 2019. Waiting times for an ambulance routinely exceed the national target of 8 minutes. Even
9 signs that you should urgently call an ambulance as seen on The Hippocratic Post.