Ludgershall and Tidworth are being let down by their ambulance service says their MP.
Figures showed that Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS) is failing to hit performance targets for emergency ‘red code’ calls.
MP Claire Perry requested detailed postcode figures for her Devizes constituency after 88-year-old Doreen Wignall from Ludgershall died in hospital in December following a lengthy wait for an ambulance after she slipped on ice.
Ambulances are expected to reach their red code calls within eight minutes in 75 per cent of cases and while GWAS reaches its target across Wiltshire as a whole, in Tidworth it only appears within eight minutes in 29 per cent of cases while in Ludgershall the figure is even worse at 27 per cent.
Read all about it in today's paper.
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