Right now we have too few ambulances for the number of jobs, which is even worse. The calls that really suffer are the "doctors' urgents" which are ambulances booked for 1-3 hours' time by doctors, usually for elderly patients with pneumonia, broken hips, DVTs etc etc being admitted to hospital. We have to deal with the "emergencies" or broken nails, stomach ache etc before we can deal with these calls, and they often end up waiting much longer than they ought, even though the patients are much sicker than the so-called emergency patients.