Ambulance services stretched thin in the U.K. are drawing attention to the non-emergency calls that are hampering their ...

The service took a range of inappropriate calls in 2024 ranging from people chipping their teeth to those being locked out of ...

Other people dialled 999 for a tight bracelet, a finger stuck in a beer bottle and toe nail mishap.

A chipped tooth, a pet alligator on the loose and a finger stuck in a beer bottle are some of the most bizarre calls made to ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --The Welsh Ambulance Service said some of the most "inappropriate" calls to its 999 emergency number in the past year include a finger stuck in a beer bottle and a person whose pet ...

The Welsh Ambulance Service has shared some of the inappropriate 999 calls it received over the past year. They include a ...

THE Welsh Ambulance Service has revealed some of the shocking inappropriate calls that were made to 999 over the past year. Among them was someone who had chipped a tooth, someone whose pet alligator ...

If you don’t need that time-critical intervention, it’s really important to apply common sense and make the right call Andy Swinburn, Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust Andy Swinburn ...

Peter Towndrow fell ill on the night of 4 December, but despite his wife Caroline calling an ambulance at 06:00 GMT the next ...

A large-scale emergency services rescue operation was launched in the Gower community and the road remained closed this ...

The Welsh ambulance service have revealed they have received a 999 call from a person whose pet alligator escaped. The call was one of many inappropriate calls revealed by the service which have been ...

Of the 426,116 calls to the ambulance service last year, 63,836 (15%) were not a life-or-death emergency – an average of 175 calls a day. On Monday, more than half of the Welsh Ambulance Service ...