National Ambulance Service blames ED turn-around times for lack of resource availability

The HSE’s National Ambulance Service (NAS) has blamed turn-around times at hospital emergency departments (EDs) over the Christmas and New Year period for the lack of availability of resources to respond to emergency calls.

NAS’s National Emergency Operations Centre was forced to send ambulance crews hundreds of kilometres across the country to calls because they were the nearest available resource at the time.