West Midlands Ambulance changes ‘putting lives at risk’
Lives are being put at risk after an ambulance response point was removed, a council boss has warned.
Cannock Chase has now been left with no response or standby points for ambulances after the last one, at Delta Way, was removed.
Councillor George Adamson, leader of the district council, said the move was ‘making people in Cannock Chase second-class NHS citizens’ and also warned lives were being put at risk.
West Midlands Ambulance Service says the change can ‘only be a good thing for patients’ as it looks to reduce the number of rapid response vehicles while increasing the number of ambulances. But councillor Adamson said he was less than impressed by the move.
“I think it is making people in Cannock Chase second-class NHS citizens and putting them at risk,” he said.
