As someone with 1st hand experience of attending ambulance calls I think Notso, et al are looking in the wrong places when blaming poor response time..
Get GP's to visit patients out of hours,
Re open all the closed A+E departments,
Encourage people to take responsibilty for their own health/welfare,
Discourage people from calling 999 for things which are clearly not an emergency - cut fingers/lift up stairs/etc,
Make ambulance trusts spend money appropriately on patient care instead of fancy
PR stunts,
Charge the timewasters,
ETC, ETC.
Maybe then people won't be 'waiting around for ambulances' when we are apparently playing spotters waiting for the crash...
PW