Hoax calls wasted more than 1,700 hours of ambulance service staff time in the last eight years, according to new figures. A total of 1,710 hours of resource time were spent dealing with malicious calls between January 2014 and the end of September 2022.
The data was released by the Scottish Ambulance Service to the Liberal Democrats in a freedom of information request. During the year to September 30, just over 133 hours were spent on malicious calls.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the ambulance service needed more resources amid winter pressures on the NHS.
