West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has taken delivery of the first batch of its new front-line ambulances, built upon the Fiat Ducato Maxi van. In total West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS ...

West Midlands Ambulance Service has the potential to collapse entirely by mid-August said its nursing director. Mark Docherty, the executive director of nursing and clinical commission at the WMAS ...

Workers at West Midlands Ambulance Service will strike for 12 hours, from 6am to 6pm, on Monday, January 23. Action in Wales, North West, North East and East Midlands will be held for 24 hours ...

An ambulance service said it has seen its busiest day to date receiving over 6,400 emergency calls. On Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service Trust said it had 6,406 emergency calls, 600 more ...

Assaults on paramedics and ambulance staff have risen, according to a report. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) recorded an increase of more than 60% in verbal assaults in the region.

Mark Docherty, of West Midlands Ambulance Service, said patients were “dying every day” from avoidable causes created by ambulance delays and that he could not understand why NHS England and ...

WEST Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) is to take over the running of the non-emergency NHS 111 service, in a first for the country. The plan will see the 111 and 999 services integrated into a ...

with the West Midlands Ambulance Service. Developed by Bradford-based ambulance conversion specialist, VCS, the so-called Electric Dual Crewed Ambulance (E-DCA) marks the first step towards an ...

The document also noted more than 100 serious incidents recorded at West Midlands Ambulance Service relate to patient deaths where the service has been unable to respond because its ambulances are ...