15 h. ago I didn't think I'd walk again after waiting two hours for an ambulance, but something extraordinary happened

A teacher who had to learn to walk again after an accident at home is running this weekend's London Marathon. Dewi Jones from Cardiff fell 15 feet from a ladder while painting the front of his house in Cardiff. He fractured the ball of his femur, smashed up his wrist and it was a slow and painful recovery with "many dark times".

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31 h. ago Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history: ‘It wasn’t fair. I wasn’t on a level playing field’

How did the women’s 1500m in the 2012 London Olympics get its unenviable reputation? Athletes who were cheated out of medals talk about what happened that day – and how the results have slowly unravelledThe tunnel in which athletes wait before they enter a stadium ahead of a major race is “by no means a friendly place to be”, says Lisa Dobriskey – and as a former Team GB athlete who won Commonwealth gold and world championship silver at 1500m, she has stood in enough of them to know. “Different people handle it differently,” she says. “Some people are really relaxed and friendly; other people just look right through you. It’s scary. I remember my coach saying to me, ‘When you go to the Olympics, you’ll be standing next to the meanest, toughest, hardest people that you’ll ever face.’ Everybody wants to win.”As it turned out, the wait to walk into London’s Olympic stadium for the final of her event in August 2012 was even more stressful than she’d been warned. With British excitement ...

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36 h. ago Ambulance service and NHS trust admit failures over death of musician

Ebow Graham died after falling out of a third-storey window in east London in April 2020 following a psychotic episodeAn ambulance service and an NHS trust have admitted breaching their duty of care over the death of Ebow Graham, a founding member of the hip-hop group Foreign Beggars.Graham, 40, died after falling out of a third-storey window in Clapton, east London in April 2020 following a psychotic episode. Hours earlier London ambulance paramedics had dismissed his friends’ concerns about his behaviour. And a crisis call handler from East London NHS trust also failed to properly assess his risk or arrange an urgent mental health assessment within the recommended time. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago New details on killing of paramedics in Gaza appear to contradict IDF’s account

Haaretz report comes as supreme court gives Israeli PM more time to respond to affidavit from fired Shin Bet chief New developments in the killing of 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip last month have come to light, with evidence reportedly contradicting the Israel Defense Forces’ claim that soldiers did not fire indiscriminately at the medical workers.The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday that its analysis of the IDF’s own materials collected as part of an internal investigation into the incident contradicted the army’s claim that soldiers did not shoot indiscriminately at Palestinian ambulances and a fire engine in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Heart attack victim died after ambulance service ‘did nothing’ for an hour

Graham Anderson, 59, died in May 2020 after falling ill at his office in Grangemouth.

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5 d. ago Schoolgirl lay dead on her bedroom floor for nearly 10 hours as 'police and ambulance argued over who should take her body to hospital'

Lucy Grant, 17, was already 'blue and quite stiff' by the time paramedics arrived and was declared dead at her family home in Johnstone, Scotland.

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5 d. ago Schoolgirl's body left on bedroom floor for nine hours as cops and ambulance "argued" over removal

Lucy Grant, 17, passed away after suffering a fatal seizure on April 15. Her family allege emergency service failures led to hours of torment where she wasn't removed from her home.

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6 d. ago 'My partner was left permanently disabled by stroke after waiting two hours for an ambulance'

Susan Harding, 57, has lost the use of the left side of her body

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8 d. ago Revealed: The WORST area in England to call an ambulance...where you'll be waiting over an hour for paramedics

Analysis of latest NHS data found one in ten heart attack and stroke patients in March were waiting over an hour and 16 minutes for paramedics to arrive in one part of the country.

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1 week ago Mother, 57, is left permanently disabled after being forced to wait almost two hours for an ambulance when she suffered a stroke

Susan Harding, 57, has lost the use of the left side of her body after suffering a haemorrhagic stroke at her home in December last year, leaving her with a bleed on the brain.

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1 week ago Widow, 76, died after lying in agony on ground of medical centre cark park for hours while waiting for an ambulance

Josephine Ellis broke her hip after falling outside the GP surgery. During her ordeal in Norfolk, no staff brought out blankets to keep her warm on the cold October day.

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1 week ago Warning over death of heart attack patient who was sent to hospital in a taxi after waiting hours for ambulance

Guy Davies said Andrew Waters was 'denied' the opportunity of 'lifesaving treatment' and died as a result of 'systemic failures'.

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1 week ago Coroner's warning after dying man, 56, was sent taxi to take him to hospital hours after calling for an ambulance

Guy Davies said Andrew Waters was 'denied' the opportunity of 'lifesaving treatment' and died as a result of 'systemic failures'.

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3 w. ago Paramedics 'watching people die' as ambulances cannot hand them over to A&E wards quick enough

A survey of ambulance staff across the UK revealed a "grim picture" of patients waiting hours in the back of ambulances.

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