Uber-style app to hail ambulance cashing in on shameful state of NHS

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App providers FlashAid guarantee that help will arrive within half an hour - compared to NHS ambulances, which even heart attack and stroke victims on average wait more than 45 minutes for.

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The NHS is restricting access to obesity services across England, leading to patients in nearly half the country being unable to book appointments with specialist teams for support and treatments such as weight-loss jabs.

An investigation by the British Medical Journal found budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on obesity care, with patients living with the condition often deemed less worthy of care than others.

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