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Policing Authority review of cancelled 999 calls to take ‘considerably’ longer

The completion of the Policing Authority review of the controversy surrounding gardai cancelling emergency 999 calls has been delayed and is likely to take “considerably more time than initially anticipated”. In its annual report, the Policing ...

28 Jul 2022 at 19:06

Health

Wife of fit and healthy “superhero” solicitor wants CPR taught “everywhere” after multiple cardiac arrests saw him “die nine times” in 10 hours

A supply teacher whose fit and healthy “superhero” husband survived multiple unexplained cardiac arrests wants CPR taught “everywhere” after he “died nine times” in less than 10 hours. When Naomi Qureshi, 53, woke up next to lawyer Mason ...

04 Aug 2022 at 09:08

Police forces ‘taking longer to respond to serious offences’

Police forces are reportedly taking an average of three minutes longer to attend serious offences in England and Wales compared with six years ago. BBC News said information requests from 22 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales ...

30 May 2022 at 08:13

Covid-19: NHS feels ‘abandoned’ by ministers

Ministers have been accused of abandoning the NHS as it facing mounting pressures due to Covid-19. Here, your questions are answered about the current state of play in the NHS. – What has been said? The NHS Confederation has said that ...

11 Apr 2022 at 12:55

Only one UK police force meeting 999 response targets, data shows

Only one police force in the UK is meeting 999 answer targets, data shows

Only one police force in the UK is meeting a target to answer 90% of 999 calls in under 10 seconds, new data has shown. Avon and Somerset Police was the only force to meet the standard, according to national statistics released for ...

31 May 2022 at 09:36

Meeting 999 response targets a ‘challenge’ amid budget cuts, police chief says

Meeting a target to answer 90% of 999 calls in less than 10 seconds is a “significant challenge for policing” at a time of squeezed budgets, a police chief has said as new data revealed only one force in the UK is attaining the ...

31 May 2022 at 16:48

Scotland

Almost two million calls to police ended before being picked up, figures show

Almost two million calls to Scotland’s police force were ended before being answered in the last three years, new figures show. Statistics released to the Scottish Tories under freedom of information found that 1,878,727 calls ...

21 Jan 2022 at 15:55

Ambulance trusts reduce alert level but warn NHS remains under extreme pressure

The public have been warned that the health service remains under extreme pressure in the run-up to Christmas, despite the highest level of alerts being stood down in some places. The majority of ambulance trusts in England ...

22 Dec 2022 at 16:45

Local News

Message in a Bottle initiative to be launched in Ardara

Following a difficult personal experience of having to call for an ambulance when a young relation was having a severe medical emergency Ardara woman, Mary Whelan reflected on how she had been unable to answer some of the ...

11 Jun 2022 at 14:33

Health

Mum whose ‘snoring’ was a sign of cardiac arrest is saved by her teenage daughter who was sharing her bed by a fluke and had learned CPR at school

A mum whose life was saved by an incredible series of coincidences when her snoring was in fact a sign of cardiac arrest told how her teenage daughter who had fallen asleep in her bed performed CPR learned at school to ...

28 Apr 2022 at 08:25

Health & Wellbeing

Everything you need to know about using a defibrillator

In a huge step for first aid in the UK, more than 20,000 defibrillators – which are devices that give an electric shock to the heart of a person who is in cardiac arrest – have been delivered to state schools across ...

25 Jul 2023 at 13:13

Emergency number back in use after nationwide technical fault

People can once again call 999 in an emergency after services were hit by a nationwide technical fault. BT said it had implemented a back-up platform after issues with 999 calls connecting were reported on Sunday ...

25 Jun 2023 at 16:08

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