Ambulance strike in England and Wales will bring ‘huge risk of harm’

Patients with serious conditions and injuries will have to get themselves to A&E, NHS chiefs say

Thousands of patients who have had strokes, heart attacks or broken bones will have to get themselves to A&E on Wednesday when ambulance staff strike over pay, NHS bosses have warned.

The disruption is expected to last for up to three days, with crews not reaching some patients who called 999 on Wednesday until Thursday or Friday.