All respect to the ambulance services but I had a friend once who was overdosing in the street, we called an ambulance and nothing came for the first half hour. He was blue lipped and shaking like crazy, I thought he was going to seize up and die in front of me. The woman on the line sounded as if she could give less of a shit that no one had showed and then after an hour and a half when it did come it came with three police cars. They where more interested in trying to get my friend to talk than get him in the ambulance.

I have my own experience as well, its obviously isn't all of the emergency services faults but it is a huge issue that seems to get worse every time I see or hear stories regarding it. I don't know if its some sort of training issue with the phone staff who maybe don't recognise emergency circumstances when they are happening or what it is.