LONDON — If your pet alligator escapes, don't call for an ambulance — unless it has sunk its teeth into someone. That's the ...

The Welsh Ambulance Service has shared some of the inappropriate 999 calls it received over the past year. They include a call from someone who had chipped a tooth, someone whose pet alligator had ...

LONDON — If your pet alligator escapes, don’t call for an ambulance — unless it has sunk its teeth into someone. That’s the message from the Welsh Ambulance Service in a plea to get people ...

Andy Swinburn, executive director of paramedicine, at the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said: “Our emergency ambulance service exists for those whose life is in imminent danger.

The Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust has released transcripts of some of the most inappropriate calls it received in 2024 (Alamy/PA) A chipped tooth, an escaped pet alligator and a finger stuck ...

Of the 426,116 calls to the ambulance service last year, 63,836 (15 per cent) were not a life or death emergency – an average of 175 calls a day. The Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS ...

If you don’t need that time-critical intervention, it’s really important to apply common sense and make the right call Andy Swinburn, Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust Andy Swinburn ...

But the ambulance service said 15% of its 426,000 calls last year — 175 a day — were not urgent. Some weren't even health-related and were far from being matters of life and death.

(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File) LONDON (AP) — If your pet alligator escapes, don't call for an ambulance — unless it has sunk its teeth into someone. That's the message from the Welsh ...