Ambulance
Ambulance is a report on BBC1. Life and death decisions on the frontline. From control rooms to the crews on the street, meet the people making sure every second counts. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 18 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2025.
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Ambulance
Patient Ron suddenly stops breathing whilst visiting London from the Isle of Wight. With his condition critical, a bystander intervenes to try to save his life.
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Call handler Caelainn and her colleagues are sexually harassed by a persistent caller using a withheld number, which makes it hard to block his repeated calls.
Crews respond to a patient in traumatic cardiac arrest after being stabbed. With his life hanging in the balance, doctors have no choice but to operate on him at the roadside.
After a frantic 999 caller reports witnessing a relative being attacked by an XL bully dog, crews are dispatched – but the dangerous dog is still on the loose.
As London sleeps. crews battle to care for vulnerable, lonely and critically ill patients, including an elderly man who has suffered catastrophic trauma after a fall downstairs.
One of London's specialist mental health cars helps to ease pressure on the service from the growing number of patients in crisis, including a homeless university student living rough.
Series 13
In south west London, Martin attends a child hit by a car, while dispatchers Ed and Webster work tirelessly to get ambulances to patients as hospitals reach full capacity.
It’s a run of night shifts for the London Ambulance Service, and delays are on the rise. Despite intensifying pressure, paramedic Rob uses his Essex charm to put every patient at ease.
Multiple specialist resources rush to help patients injured after a shooting on a busy street in Clapham, while paramedics care for elderly patients reluctant to accept help.
Dispatchers Karen and Lucy face an overwhelming surge of urgent calls, while crews out on the road grow frustrated by frequent callers taking up valuable emergency resources.
Emergency medical technician Ellis draws on his own personal experiences to help a patient struggling with alcohol addiction as the spring budget for 2024 is announced.
London Ambulance Service manage a multi-storey flat fire and face the impact of assaults, both on patients and themselves.
Series 12
While ambulances queue outside hospital with their patients, care is delayed for others ringing 999.
It’s Easter bank holiday weekend, and the ambulance service receive a spike in the number of mental health-related calls.
Ambulance crews struggle to deal with life-threatening emergencies while also being the last resort for those who have no-one else to turn to.
The ambulance service responds to two separate calls for patients with severe burns, both in need of urgent treatment at the region’s only specialist burns unit.
Multiple resources are dispatched to a patient who has fallen 20 feet from a tree and requires urgent treatment for a suspected broken back and open wrist fracture.
Multiple emergency services respond to two separate reports of unexploded bombs in Greater Manchester, one with a primary school and nursery nearby.