Doctors yet again in the firing line, this time due to an ambulance crew undertaking an uneccesary 400 mile round trip in an Ambulance (although the story actually involves GPS sattelite navigation, rather than General Practicioners, we're so used to being bashed in the press that you'll have to excuse a little paranoia). The supposed 12 mile patient transfer between Brentford and Ilford in Essex went slightly wrong, with the ambulance ending up in Manchester.
Apparently the crew hadn't realised they were being being led up the garden path, despite subtle clues (like Birmingham).
In a disturbing twist, several local 'personal injury lawyers' are to sue the Ambulance trust for wasted time, because what should only have been a brief ambulance chase took 8 hours.
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