Not only in Britain, but I think that "ambutaxi" is worse. In lots of cases, the patient is waiting for the ambulance on the road, with tons of luggages, with his/her relatives following us by car. At the question: "Why did you call an ambulance instead of a taxi/mover?", the answer is one of the following: 1. If we get to the hospital by ambulance, I get visited before the others. 2. The ambulance service is for free, taxis are not. 3. The "Professor" is waiting for us to perform our routine check-up in that hospital 15 miles from here, and, you know, there's a lot of traffic today... 4. The GP told us to call an ambulance to get to the hospital to perform some urgent analyses.