Paramedics ordered to take more coronavirus sufferers to hospital as ‘scorecard’ threshold lowered

Paramedics have been told to take more coronavirus patients to hospital, after a ‘scorecard’ threshold was lowered because of fears only seriously ill people were being taken to A&E.  The London Ambulance Service has changed how it uses the scorecard, which is called News2 and helps assess whether people who call 999 are at risk of … Read more