The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has highlighted the pressures it and health trusts are facing
The ambulance service has said that it needs 300 additional operational staff in order to cope with demand.
The ambulance service has said that these pressures have caused "some serious delays" in responding to 999 calls, and has apoligised to those patients who were effected. "Some of the other challenges facing NIAS are also being experienced across the other five Health and Social Care Trusts and this can impact upon the ability of NIAS crews to handover patients at Emergency Departments. These delays in ambulance turnaround times impact greatly on the number of crews we have available to respond, in a timely manner, to emergencies in the community.
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"We will always try and respond to every call as quickly as possible and we will continue to prioritise those calls which are immediately life threatening.
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