London Ambulance Service 'returning to normal'

Bosses at London Ambulance Service have said operations are returning to normal after some staff took strike action today between 7am and 11am.

LAS said that, during the industrial action paramedics, doctors and nurses worked on ambulances, and also from the emergency control room where they carried out enhanced clinical assessments of patients.

Eighty six per cent of control room staff worked during the strike action and 23 per cent of ambulance crews.

People in life-threatening situations received an emergency ambulance response but others were provided with alternative treatments or were asked to make their own way to hospital.