There is plenty of publicity about patients not turning up for their appointments at hospitals or GP's surgeries, but little is reported when ambulances don't turn up to collect patients.
My elderly mother, who is wheelchair-bound, was let down twice within a week, once when she was due to have laser treatment on her eye and a second time when she was due to attend an outpatients' clinic.
-Beryl Cager, Wilson Avenue, Brighton
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