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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

Ambulance response times ‘putting lives at risk’ as girl, 9, told to wait 10 hours

Jonathan Brady/PA

Ambulance response times are putting lives at risk, medics have warned after a schoolgirl with a fractured skull was told it would take 10 hours for help to arrive.

It recently emerged wait times for ambulances in England dealing with “life-threatening” callouts are at their highest level on record.

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