Earlier this year, Dr Nigel Ruddell, the medical director of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), said that delays getting patients into emergency departments was leading to an increase ...

Dr Nigel Ruddell, medical director from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, has already confirmed that ambulance delays are causing more deaths. The Auditor General’s description of the ...

The scale of the crisis in our health service has been growing steadily over recent years, and the latest figures on ambulance delays plainly represent another shocking development. A report from the ...

Delays getting patients into emergency departments (EDs) is leading to an increase in deaths, the medical director of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) has said. Dr Nigel Ruddell said ...

There has been a “dramatic deterioration” in ambulance handover times in Northern Ireland, the Auditor General has found. The number of handovers taking more than three hours rose from around 400 ...

Earlier this year, Dr Nigel Ruddell, the medical director of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), said that delays getting patients into emergency departments was leading to an increase ...

Northern Ireland's hospitals have recently experienced ... incident in the Annvale Road area of Keady on Friday. Dr Nigel Ruddell said the longer patients wait outside an ED the more they are ...

Northern Ireland's comptroller and auditor general ... NIAS medical director Dr Nigel Ruddell told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today that he was hopeful the report would act as a catalyst for ...