Emergency calls to ambulance service on the rise

Guernsey's Ambulance Service say the number of emergency calls is increasing every year.

There's been a nearly 11% rise over two years, from 4500 hundred calls in 2014 to almost 5000 in 2016.

Jon Beausire, Chief Officer of the Emergency Ambulance Service, says it's because of the island's ageing population, and the most common call out last year was to elderly people who had fallen.

St John also experienced its highest number of emergency calls in January 2017.

Almost 15% more ambulances were called out compared to the previous year.

Extra staff are being called in to handle the additional work.