Private ambulances ordered utilizing an app are said to get wrong 30 minutes.

By Hanna Geissler, Health Editor

14:58, Fri, Feb 7, 2025 | UPDATED: 14:58, Fri, Feb 7, 2025

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The app institution said its work was typically 'much faster than the NHS' (Image: Getty)

Patients are turning to a backstage Uber-style ambulance work arsenic NHS effect times stay dangerously higher than targets.

FlashAid is the UK’s archetypal app that allows users to publication an ambulance with a committedness it volition get successful nether 30 minutes.

Customers tin subscribe to the work for arsenic small arsenic £2.99 a month, past wage a fixed interest of £295 (or somewhat little for premium subscribers) for a location appraisal and treatment.

If patients request to spell to hospital, they are charged an further £99 per hr astatine the extremity of their ride.

FlashAid partners with backstage ambulance services and tin transport radical to NHS oregon backstage hospitals.

It launched a aviator work successful westbound London and the Thames Valley successful December and plans to rotation retired its work nationwide.

The company’s Maxim Korotich told the Daily Mail request for his work “speaks for itself” and FlashAid typically gets to patients “much faster than the NHS”.

NHS targets accidental ambulances should respond to class 2 calls, including heart attacks and strokes, wrong 30 minutes.

They took an mean of 47 minutes and 26 seconds successful December, wellness work information shows.

Hospitals stay nether aggravated unit with much than 98,000 patients connected wards past week - the highest truthful acold this winter.

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Professor Julian Redhead, NHS national clinical manager for urgent and exigency care, warned this week that hospitals were “close to full” with thousands of beds taken up by those with viruses.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said patients and unit were “facing unacceptable conditions successful hospitals up and down the country”.

He added: “It volition instrumentality clip to hole the NHS but with concern and due reform, we tin marque our health service fit for the aboriginal and marque definite that yearly wintertime pressures bash not automatically pb to an yearly wintertime crisis.”