ambulance

ambulance

Profit pressures rise for troubled ambulance firm

SOS Alarm owners push the company to reach higher profits despite several counties having cancelled contracts with the emergency response outfit while others express serious dissatisfaction.

ambulance

Ignored ambulance call fatality 'a tragedy'

The nurse who refused to send an ambulance to a 23-year-old Stockholm man who later died had been reported several times prior to the incident.

ambulance

Badly burned 1-year-old denied ambulance

Swedish emergency services are to launch an internal investigation after a one-year-old boy who received second degree burns was denied an ambulance, reported Aftonbladet newspaper.

healthcare

Stockholm taxis to double as ambulances

Stockholm taxis are to be deployed to respond to emergency calls and drivers trained to treat cardiac arrest using defibrillators, medical and taxi officials said on Friday.

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Government blocks funds for improved 112 services

Mobile phone calls to SOS Alarm, the Swedish emergency services, have increased by 65% over the last couple of years. The organisation says it needs another 5 million crowns to deal with the increase - and to comply with a recent EU directive - but the government has refused further funds.