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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
John Stevens

Taxis will ferry 999 patients to hospital during ambulance strike next week

Taxis will be used to ferry patients to hospital during next week’s ambulance strike, it has been revealed.

Health minister Will Quince said emergency vehicles will be used for the most urgent 999 calls, such as heart attacks and strokes.

But he said less serious cases could be answered by taxi drivers who will be block-booked by the government.

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