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AUS air ambulance crashed in fog killing four of its five occupants, the eighth such fatal incident in a year. The medical helicopter was carrying victims of a traffic accident when it went down in a suburban Washington park, bringing the total death toll to around 30. Crashes of medical aircraft have been increasing since the 1990s, in part because it is a booming business, fuelled by the closing of hospital emergency departments in rural areas. In yesterday's crash, a veteran pilot, a...
By Lyndsay Moss NOBODY can deny that the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) has had a tough year. It has found itself at the centre of political debate in the Scottish Parliament, with alternating opposition parties using it as a stick with which to beat the SNP. The service has faced repeated criticism over one-person crews in ambulances usually meant to be staffed by two people. There have also been the usual - and often justified - complaints from patients and their families about...
By Phil Skelton A pounds5 million fleet of high-tech ambulances will soon be helping emergency patients in Gloucestershire. Great Western Ambulance Service has invested in 31 ambulances which will filter into the urgent care system across Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Avon. All ambulances are fitted with CCTV and panic buttons for staff. Floors are lined with non-slip material and the whole ambulance, from stretchers to equipment, is designed to be easier to clean. The vehicles are...
By Nafeesa Syeed Associated Press DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. -- The pilot of a medical helicopter twice radioed for help in foggy weather before crashing Sunday, killing four of the five people on board in the latest of a growing number of air ambulance accidents, authorities said. The medical helicopter was carrying victims of a traffic accident when it went down in a suburban Washington park. It was the deadliest medevac helicopter accident in Maryland since the state police began flying those...
By STAFF REPORTER South Devon's jungle celebrity Jennie Bond was on hand to launch the new high speed tool in Devon Air Ambulance's arsenal. Its call sign G-DVAA may sound bland but the new helicopter is set to give a dramatic boost to the mercy air link from incidents to hospital across Devon. Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie from East Prawle, who raised more than pounds260,000 for the air ambulance, was its first passenger. As it landed beside its sister helicopter at Dunchideock...
HEALTH chiefs in Germany are using cattle trucks to transport overweight patients because they can't afford special ambulances. (c) 2008 Daily Mirror. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.
By Jeremy Laurance Ambulances 'stacked' outside A&E departments ALMOST ONE in five health trusts are delivering poor quality care outside normal office hours, the most comprehensive investigation into urgent and emergency services has concluded. The Healthcare Commission also found that proportion of out-of- hours calls categorised as "urgent" varied from under 4 per cent to more than 32 per cent between services, "raising questions" over consistency. Among the other findings were: *Only...
By Alisha A Pina REHOBOTH -- Three people were taken to area hospitals yesterday morning after an ambulance traveling in the north section of town near the Attleboro town line rolled onto its side and slid up to 100 feet. The injuries are not life-threatening, said Patrolman Paul McGovern of the Police Department's special investigation unit. McGovern was the officer in charge at the scene. The private ambulance company, Alert Ambulance, of Fall River, was carrying a patient at 11:21 a.m....
By LINDY WASHBURN, STAFF WRITER The emergency room at the former Pascack Valley Hospital is to reopen next Wednesday at 9 a.m. Final licensing approval was granted Tuesday afternoon by the state Department of Health, said Marilyn Riley, a spokeswoman. The department's inspectors visited the newly renovated department last week. "It's going to open, definitely and without a question, on Oct. 1," said John Ferguson, president and chief executive officer of Hackensack University...
By JULIA HORTON AIR ambulances are set to respond to hundreds more 999 calls in Scotland in an attempt to reach official targets - despite soaring oil prices sending fuel costs spiralling. The cost of each of the 3500 air ambulance emergency callouts which take place every year has already risen to GBP4000 per mission . Yesterday, the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) said it was considering using air ambulances n 20per cent of all call-outs to help meet a Scottish Government target of...
