Boy Dies As 999 Crew On Break ; Renewed Calls to Settle Long-Running Ambulance Row
The Journal › January 20, 2007
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AN ambulance crew took 15 minutes to reach a schoolboy choking to death on a pen top - while para-medics just three miles from the scene took a meal break.
The North-East Ambulance Service (NEAS) despatched a crew from Stanley - 10 miles from Ben Stirland's home in Consett Road, Castleside, County Durham - after failing to inform the crew at Consett Ambulance Station, just three miles down the road, about the incident because they were having a break.See the full content of this document
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Boy Dies As 999 Crew On Break ; Renewed Calls to Settle Long-Running Ambulance Row
The Stanley crew failed to meet the Government's eight-minute target response time for what is classed as a "Category A" or life- threatening emergency.
Medical experts said that, had the Consett...See the full content of this document
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