An air ambulance service urges families to teach children what to do in an emergency.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secamb said by calling 999 the public were not automatically going to get an ambulance [Mark Norman BBC] Ambulance service call ...

A 55-year-old man died alone after twice calling 999 only to be told by call handlers an ambulance would not be sent for him. Brian Hurton had an aortic dissection - when a tear opens up in the body's ...

Ambulance service call handlers have described how they dealt with "unprecedented" numbers of 999 calls. South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) dealt with 22,500 calls between 5 and 11 January, ...