Abstract

Three Court of Appeal judges ruled this month that ambulance services can be liable to pay compensation for injuries resulting from failure to respond to 999 calls within a reasonable time. This test case ruling could leave ambulance services open to a huge increase in costly litigation. Tracey Kent, a 35 year old asthma sufferer, was awarded more than £360 000 when she claimed that she had suffered …

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