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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

London ambulance calls surge as IT outage leaves patients struggling to contact GPs

Calls to the London Ambulance Service have surged as patients struggle to access their GP due to the global IT outage, new figures have revealed.

The LAS said it received 6,849 calls to 999 on Saturday, a 60 per cent rise on the same day last year.

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