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RISING demand has led to spending on private ambulances in Yorkshire soaring by 267 per cent in less than three years.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service paid private firms £2.8m in nine months out of the 12 in 2013 – up from £782,000 from April 2011/12.
The number of incidents non-NHS ambulances were sent to annually rocketed by more than 1,000 per cent between 2010 and 2014.
Nearly 20,000 calls in total were responded to by private firms over that time.
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....ate-ambulances-in-yorkshire-rockets-1-6637800
Yorkshire Ambulance Service paid private firms £2.8m in nine months out of the 12 in 2013 – up from £782,000 from April 2011/12.
The number of incidents non-NHS ambulances were sent to annually rocketed by more than 1,000 per cent between 2010 and 2014.
Nearly 20,000 calls in total were responded to by private firms over that time.
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....ate-ambulances-in-yorkshire-rockets-1-6637800