PMBlackburn published NHS 111 piling pressure on Nottingham paramedics, senior medics...

Seriously ill patients with broken bones, burns and head injuries could be left waiting for an ambulance as call handlers on the NHS 111 phone line "swamp" the county's emergency services.Senior medics say Nottingham's NHS is being stretched by a cautious computer system which calls ambulances for problems as minor as women having a period and patients with mild breathing difficulties.Latest figures show that the ambulance service for Nottinghamshire is receiving around 3,000 more...