I wonder why Staffordshire seem to only have three ambulances. New reports say three ambulances were being kept outside A&E to house patients, fair enough, this shouldn't happen and those ambulances could have been better used elsewhere attending emergencies/urgents/watching TV on station. But what about the rest of the fleet? If a person on the street had called 999, they would get an ambulance from somewhere, it might take 10-20minutes, but they would get one. Why should the hospital have to wait two hours when they call 999? The flip side of this is the patient was in a ward under the care of a doctor. OK, he needs to be in ICU where they have more resources, but adequate care could be provided whee he was, it just means staff are taken away from other areas to concentrate on looking after this one poor kid. It is most likely he would have died anyway, its not as if he spent 2 hours on the street or at home waiting for treatment.