LHR: Third World emergency services.
What is the point of declaring a medical emergency going into LHR, if you then have to wait at the gate for 30 minutes whilst an NHS ambulance arrives from Hillingdon?
I cannot believe that the BAA do not employ paramedics on 24 hour standby at LHR. The use of NHS crews unfamiliar with the gates at LHR, plus the need for them to go through security to get airside, causes delays and puts people's lives at risk.
It is time that the BAA stopped thinking of airports as shopping centres and started providing the emergency facilities that a "modern" airport and our passengers require.