{"id":489128,"date":"2026-06-08T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489128\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:02:08","slug":"east-of-england-ambulance-to-take-fewer-patients-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489128\/","title":{"rendered":"East of England Ambulance to take fewer patients to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said specialist clinicians would be involved in patient care earlier, clearer advice would be provided and life-threatening emergencies would be responded to sooner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This new system, the trust said, would reduce delays, avoid &#8220;unnecessary&#8221; hospital visits and improve care for those in greatest need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust&#8217;s Patient Plan detailed that the new approach could improve survival rates for those in cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By sending ambulances only where they are truly needed, EEAST aims to reduce waiting times for its most critical patients,&#8221; the trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The plan also sets out closer working between ambulance services, GPs, hospitals, mental health services and community teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Services such as 999 and 111 will be more closely linked, so patients receive consistent advice and are directed to the right support from the start.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust said specialist clinicians would be involved in patient care earlier, clearer advice would be provided and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-489128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}