It’s hard to get away from the warnings that this winter is going to be worse than the last for the NHS.
There have been so many voices that it could be easy to become immune to them.
That’s why our figures, revealing that the number of serious incidents involving the ambulance service has risen dramatically, are so important.
Serious incidents are often mistakes that are so significant they warrant investigation or result in a patient dying or being seriously harmed.
Their increase suggests that pressure, put on paramedics during the winter months, is leading to many more mistakes that need official probing.
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