Millions of pounds has been spent on cover services for short staffed ambulance services in the east of England a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Welwyn Hatfield Times report: 

MORE than £12m has been spent on private ambulances by health chiefs over a 17-month period, it has emerged.

The East of England Ambulance Trust forked out for the multi-million pound cover service between April 2011 and August 2012.

It left bosses with a £12,815,702 bill, new figures have revealed.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.