{"id":691599,"date":"2026-01-12T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691599\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:25:13","slug":"ni-ambulance-service-warns-of-high-demand-for-emergency-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691599\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Ambulance Service warns of \u2018high demand\u2019 for emergency services"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) has issued a public warning as it continues to experience high demand across its services.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson has urged the public to \u2018use emergency resources responsibly.\u2019<\/p>\n

In a statement released by the Health and Social Care Trust on Monday morning, NIAS said: \u201cWe are continuing to experience high demand for our services.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur teams are working hard to prioritise our response to the most seriously ill and injured patients.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you have called us and are waiting for an ambulance to arrive, please only call back if the patient\u2019s condition worsens, or if you no longer require assistance.<\/p>\n

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Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n

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\u201cPlease keep 999 for emergencies. Before calling us consider other alternatives such as self-care, pharmacy or GP advice. You may also wish to consider the GP out of hours service, if appropriate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you feel your situation is an emergency, please do not hesitate to call 999.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[5825,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-691599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-niamh-campbell","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115883535600661986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}