Steve Barclay warns that elderly people who fall won’t be able to get an ambulance during the strikes later this month (Report, 7 December). Is he not aware that this is already the reality for many of the elderly who fall in their homes?
My 80-year-old father recently spent the entire night on the floor before being found in the morning by his neighbour. She immediately called 999 for an ambulance. We waited nine hours, before my dad insisted we cancel it. He was anxious about a long, cold wait in the back of an ambulance at night because he has a lung condition.
