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Sep 2021
Welsh ambulances face unprecedented pressure due to Covid
The country’s health minister, Eluned Morgan, has said the Welsh ambulance service faces pressure like it has never seen before.
This news comes following the announcement that the service has asked for help from the military to drive its vehicles.
Ms Morgan added that calls have increased 20-30 per cent compared to the same time last year, that staff were approaching “burnout” and that there was a “blockage” in getting people out of hospitals.
Welsh Ambulance Services Trusts said they had been under “significant and sustained pressure” over recent months, and they need assistance to help cope during the winter months.
Jason Killens, chief executive of the trust, apologised to “all of those patients that have waiting much longer for their emergency ambulance to arrive than we would like in recent weeks and months.”
He added that the military drivers would “help us put more ambulances on the streets, and get to see more patients more quickly.”
However, he also said that was “not the solution”, saying the pressure on his service was a symptom of a “broader problem across urgent and emergency care here in Wales and across the UK”.
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