Ambulance service moves to 'highest escalation level' due to 'huge spike' in calls |
The East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) has moved to REAP (Resource Escalation Action Plan) Level 4 in response to sustained high demand on the service and handover delays at hospitals.
This means it can put in additional measures to get to patients as quickly as possible, such as deploying all available clinicians to frontline duties.
In the week ending November 30, the EEAST took almost 24,000 emergency calls from........