Dispatching changes may impact Lambton County ambulance response times

Ambulances may take longer to arrive to calls that aren’t life-threatening because of changes coming in November to how Lambton County paramedics are dispatched.A communications centre in Wallaceburg dispatching ambulances in Lambton and Chatham-Kent is switching to a provincial medical priority dispatch system that prioritizes life-threatening emergencies rather than call sequence, said a county report.“We would see it as a better system” that “hones-in on the triage le