Armed police have reportedly had to deal with people in cardiac arrest due to a nationwide shortage of paramedics.
The NHS is facing "the biggest workforce crisis in history", with staffing shortages repeatedly putting patients at risk.
This, he argues, meant that ambulances "couldn't keep up" with demand, making firearms police "the first and only last resort."
Police kept away from serious crimes spend a third of their time on non-enforcement calls, The Independent reports. doing.
This includes responding to mental health crises and transferring people to her A&E.
Andy Cook, Chief Inspector of the HM Police Department, is the NHS responding to the heart attack.
He said: First aid and defibrillator use.
"The ambulance service called the police and said, 'We have this heart patient and we have no one to send.'
"As a first, last and only resort, the police will go. What they did was right, but they are hiding problems in the rest of the system.
The National Police Commissioners' Council has also warned that police will have to take patients to hospital due to a shortage of ambulances.
This can mean having to wait hours at A&E with people who are mentally ill or vulnerable. 33}
Chief Constable Olivia Pinckney, the national leader of local police, stressed that this would reduce the police's ability to fight crime and protect people. [37]
This is something that paramedics face every day. It's just a snapshot of the scale of the difficulties we face.
Earlier this year, the Unison union reported that emotional breakdowns, sleep problems, and mood swings were among issues reported by staff coping with months of unprecedented demand. , and the use of antidepressants.
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