Yorkshire Ambulance Service warns of 999 delays as staff strike

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Yorkshire Ambulance Service warns of 999 delays as staff strike
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Yorkshire Ambulance Service workers are staging the latest in a series of walkouts over pay.

People are being urged to call 999 for life-threatening or very serious incidents only during strike action.

He warned there might be no response or a significant delay to less serious calls during the action and patients could be asked to make their own way to hospital if it was safe for them to do so.Ambulance service bosses have urged people only to call 999 for "very serious" incidents Rachel Harrison, the union's national secretary, said: "Ministers seem to think GMB members will be fobbed off by pretending this year's cost of living crisis hasn't happened. They are wrong.

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