999 DELAYS 'LEAVE SERVICE ON BRINK'
Daily Record|May 26, 2022
THE ambulance service is at "breaking point", with the number of 999 callers waiting more than two hours increasing rapidly, MSPS have claimed.
REBECCA MCCURDY
999 DELAYS 'LEAVE SERVICE ON BRINK'

While the coronavirus pandemic is likely to have negatively impacted the service, Scottish Conservative health spokesman and GP Sandesh Gulhane said the "out of control" waiting times predate Covid-19. Freedom of information data, obtained by the Tories, revealed that 40,166 emergency callers waited more than 120 minutes for paramedics in 2021-22.

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