The calls that waste paramedics' time
13 April 2012
Paramedics respond to dozens of unnecessary call-outs every day. Recent examples include:
- A woman whose toe ring was stuck
- A man who walked to a payphone and dialled 999, claiming he could not walk
- A woman who had trapped her finger in a plastic bottle
- A man who rang because his daughter had got wet in the rain and caught a "fever"
- A man who had been "attacked" by a cat
- A woman claiming chest pain - triggering the most rapid response from paramedics - but who actually wanted a lift back to hospital to pick up some test results
- A woman who dialled 999 because her husband was drunk and had been sick
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