General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

A piece in today’s Times highlights misuse of the ambulance service.
Paramedics were called more than 10,000 times to only 10 households.
One household in Barnet called paramedics 3,594 times last year. An ambulance was sent 715 times and a patient was taken to hospital 37 times. It cost the NHS £150,000.
London Ambulance reported 50,000 ambulance calls from 1600 people last year.