[nomadking]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Just to put things in perspective re how bad things are the latest advice on if you're having a heart attack is to phone a cab rather than an ambulance

No it's not.

If somebody with a car is with them, and they can be moved, then the possibility of them being taken to hospital by car might be presented.

Link

In an internal note seen by the HSJ, call handlers were told that, where there was a risk of delay in ambulance response time, they should "consider asking the patient to be transported by friends or family".
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It is understood the temporary guidance over the bank holiday weekend did not affect the most urgent cases.
He added that the escalation meant alerting patients who were not in a potentially life-threatening condition, that when there was a delay for an ambulance, that they could make "an informed choice where it was quicker and safer for them to travel to hospital rather than wait".

So not cabs, not in every case and circumstances, and still a matter of choice.
That is the true perspective.