Ambulance

Every second counts as critical care paramedic Zach tries to stabilise an 11-year-old boy who has been seriously injured in a multi-car crash.

Critical care paramedic Nick is dispatched to a 78-year-old man who was found collapsed at home. Surrounded by the patient’s family, Nick must deliver some heartbreaking news.

Ingleton crew Barney and Chloe are dispatched to a woman who is discovered collapsed at a bus stop and are shocked to discover how and why she got there.

Every parent’s worst nightmare unfolds when five-year-old Harry is hit by a car. Paramedics battle through rush hour traffic to reach him.

Patient Ron suddenly stops breathing whilst visiting London from the Isle of Wight. With his condition critical, a bystander intervenes to try to save his life.

Call handler Caelainn and her colleagues are sexually harassed by a persistent caller using a withheld number, which makes it hard to block his repeated calls.

Crews respond to a patient in traumatic cardiac arrest after being stabbed. With his life hanging in the balance, doctors have no choice but to operate on him at the roadside.

Aer a frantic 999 caller reports witnessing a relative being attacked by an XL bully dog, crews are dispatched – but the dangerous dog is still on the loose.

In south west London, Martin attends a child hit by a car, while dispatchers Ed and Webster work tirelessly to get ambulances to patients as hospitals reach full capacity.

It’s a run of night shifts for the London Ambulance Service and delays are on the rise. Despite intensifying pressure, paramedic Rob uses his Essex charm to put every patient at ease.

Multiple specialist resources rush to help patients injured after a shooting on a busy street in Clapham, while paramedics care for elderly patients reluctant to accept help.

Dispatchers Karen and Lucy face an overwhelming surge of urgent calls, while crews out on the road grow frustrated by frequent callers taking up valuable emergency resources.

While ambulances queue outside hospital with their patients, care is delayed for others ringing 999.

It’s Easter bank holiday weekend, and the ambulance service receive a spike in the number of mental health-related calls.

Ambulance crews struggle to deal with life threatening emergencies while also being the last resort for those who have no one else to turn to.

The ambulance service responds to two separate calls for patients with severe burns, both in need of urgent treatment at the region’s only specialist burns unit.

Ambulance crews respond to a road traffic accident where a man who has severely injured himself requires advanced pain relief.

An urgent call from someone threatening to use a nerve agent against the emergency services leads to a major incident standby being declared.

Crewmates Mandy and Lauren help an elderly patient at the local boatyard, who has been on the floor for two days before being discovered by his neighbour.

A busy weekend night shift across Lancashire sees advanced paramedic Shaun dispatched to a baby born in the passenger seat of a car.

Crewmates Emily and Gayle respond to calls regarding an attempted suicide and an 81-year-old diabetic who has fallen off his mobility scooter.

The North East Ambulance Service responds to multiple 999 calls for patients at breaking point and struggling with their mental health.

A suicidal patient phones in a bomb threat, and the crews have a very busy St Patrick's Day.

Staff shortages and a rise in 999 calls stretch the North East Ambulance Service to its limits, meaning only the most critical patients will get an ambulance.

Crewmates Paula and Phil attend a patient who is feeling suicidal, and the call-out takes a worrying turn when the patient begins hallucinating in the back of the ambulance.

The North East Ambulance Service and Great North Air Ambulance Service work as a team after multiple urgent 999 calls alert them to a collision on the motorway.

Crewmates Joe and Hayley attend a number of emergencies, including a baby who is not responding, a centenarian who has had a fall, and a patient who has jumped off a bridge.

A 999 call for a patient driving the wrong way up a slip road kicks off another busy shift for the team covering the 2,300 square miles of Teesside.

As society opens up, the Easter bank holiday has consequences for North West Ambulance Service. A call for a patient stuck in a forest in Cumbria takes priority.

On a busy night shift in Lancashire, a call for a patient threatening to take his life by walking into the sea in Blackpool takes priority for the North West Ambulance Service.

One year on from the beginning of national lockdown, Lancashire ambulance crews attend to patients whose health problems have been bought on or exacerbated by isolation caused by the lockdown.

A 999 call for a patient who has fallen from a horse in a remote area takes priority for crewmates Chris and Lee on a very busy day shift in Lancashire.

A quiet start to the night shift is broken by a 999 call on behalf of a 13-year-old patient who is stuck on a bus having dislocated her knee.

The North West Ambulance Service are struggling with a spike in staff sickness from Covid-19, which is making it hard to meet the demand for 999 responses. A decision is made to ask for military personnel to help.

Linda and Emma respond to patients in mental health crisis across Liverpool, while an asylum seeker struggling with isolation is a cause of concern for the whole service.

A crew attend to a woman who has contracted Covid-19 while 20 weeks pregnant. But they must join a queue of 56 ambulances waiting to transfer patients into the local hospital.

It's 10pm on Friday night, and Abbie and Ben, and Kieran and Mick, are amongst the 320 crews on duty in the capital. Reports are coming in of an armed male on the loose, but it's a call for a reported stabbing seven miles away which takes priority.

In control, join call handler Erin as she answers a 999 call from a distressed relative who has found their loved one hanging. This is the first time Erin has answered a call such as this and it has an instant impact.

A call for a reported stabbing seven miles away that takes priority. Across the river, another 999 call is in progress for another patient who has been stabbed, this time in the throat, while on his way home with his girlfriend on a bus.

It's Halloween and in the control room, B watch are on duty and tare expecting a busy night. A call from the London Fire Brigade requesting assistance at a fire in a block of flats immediately puts the team under pressure.

Call handler Brogan has to guide one caller through the process of performing lifesaving CPR while they wait for an ambulance to arrive.

A man found slumped in his car in the city centre turns on the good samaritan who called an ambulance for him, leaving the caller needing emergency hospital treatment.

A burglar has injured himself while trying to escape from a house he was burgling. As Kirsten arrives to support the crews already at scene, she finds he is in agony with a nasty open fracture to his leg.

North West Ambulance Service mobilises extra resources as thousands of visitors arrive in Liverpool for the Grand National.

While most enjoy a hot May bank holiday weekend in Manchester, North West Ambulance Service paramedics Gary and Claire need face matters of life and death.

The North West Ambulance Service prepares for England's meeting with Croatia in the World Cup semi-final. As the country comes together in hope and excitement, the crews nervously anticipate the increase in calls that will follow no matter what the result.

This episode follows staff on a Friday night shift. Saj, the performance manager, is concerned there aren’t enough ambulances for all the patients needing them.

A Friday night shift takes an unexpected turn for paramedic Jon. A panicked caller needs help for a friend who has given birth in a hotel room despite not knowing she was pregnant.

This episode follows West Midlands Ambulance Service over three shifts in Staffordshire, where crews are dealing with an increasing number of social issues, drug and alcohol misuse, and mental health patients.

This episode covers two shifts with paramedics of West Midlands Ambulance Service, as Royal Stoke Hospital struggles to cope with the volume of patients being brought in.

The last Saturday before Christmas is a busy, with controller Sui having to prioritise stabbing victims and reports of drowning over patient's like Betty, whose daughter says she's fine but needs help getting up having fallen to the floor.

At the start of a night shift, West Midlands Ambulance Service is receiving a High volume of emergency calls and is struggling to cope. A specialist paramedic attends a machete attack but his less urgent jobs are even more time-consuming.

The West Midlands Ambulance Service have to deal with the fatal consequences as Storm Doris batters the UK. Gale force winds are causing accidents, blocking roads and grounding the air ambulance.

Crews in the more rural areas covered by the service are called out to an elderly couple, a train-spotter who has fallen and banged his head and suicidal patients.

Justin and Dawn's first call of the day is to a woman whose waters have broken. A drunken man, repeat callers and a woman unable to leave her home all test the crews patience.

The air ambulance is dispatched to a woman struggling to breathe after falling, but the helicopter is soon also needed at a road accident in Staffordshire. Reports of a hanging come in but is the call a hoax?

The staff of the London Ambulance Service prepare for another busy weekend. Amidst the call-outs to drunken fights, drug overdoses and stabbings there are also five women going into labour and a miscarriage to cope with.

We join the staff in the nerve-centre control room on the night shift. Amongst the thousands of calls they receive, they also have to contend with hoaxers, frequent callers and run-away patients.

Multiple stabbings, suicide attempts, a double shooting and an explosion at a flat flood the control centre of the London Ambulance Service with emergency calls threatening to overwhelm the service.