https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Emergency services in Uppsala turned back from a call-out when they couldn't contact a 30-year-old man at his address. He was later found dead from a brain hemorrhage. https://www.thelocal.se/20140509/swede-30-dies-as-ambulance-turns-back Fri, 09 May 2014 10:18:00 +0200 swede-30-dies-as-ambulance-turns-back The Swedish government is proposing to call time on a service that allows people to talk to a pastor by ringing the national emergency number 112, a move that counters action to cut suicide rates, the service's national coordinator has said. https://www.thelocal.se/20130718/49136 Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:11:00 +0200 49136 Swedish emergency service operator SOS Alarm should be replaced by a state authority, according to a new proposal presented to Sweden's Defence Minister Karin Enström on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20130429/47616 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:18:00 +0200 47616 Swedish authorities opened the lines to a new emergency telephone number on Monday, to be used specifically by residents looking for information about emergency situations. https://www.thelocal.se/20130312/46680 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:25:00 +0100 46680 Swedish emergency operators quizzed a pregnant English-speaking immigrant about her race and ethnicity when she unexpectedly went into labour at the weekend and was forced to wait more than two hours for an ambulance. https://www.thelocal.se/20120625/41644 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:41:00 +0200 41644 The degree of panic in the voices of those who call Swedish emergency service operator SOS Alarm plays an important role in how operators assess callers' need for help, a new study has found. https://www.thelocal.se/20120619/41524 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:28:00 +0200 41524 Health authorities in northern Sweden have come in for scathing critique for the death of 22-year-old Jill Söderberg, whose repeated calls for an ambulance were denied because she was “still talking”. https://www.thelocal.se/20120327/39930 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:27:00 +0200 39930 A 75-year-old Stockholm man suffering from a heart attack was forced to call three times and wait 13 hours before emergency services operator SOS Alarm finally sent an ambulance. He died in hospital the following day. https://www.thelocal.se/20120314/39656 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:23:00 +0100 39656 Swedish emergency response service SOS Alarm has reported the death of a teenage boy to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), after the ambulance never turned up and his parents had to drive him to hospital. https://www.thelocal.se/20120209/39022 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:16:00 +0100 39022 A woman whose boyfriend died after she was unable to get through to Swedish emergency response service SOS Alarm has reported the matter to health authorities. https://www.thelocal.se/20120201/38842 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:51:00 +0100 38842 A Stockholm court on Wednesday acquitted the nurse on trial for failing to dispatch an ambulance in answer to an emergency call, causing the death of a 23-year-old man. https://www.thelocal.se/20111130/37660 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:31:00 +0100 37660 A 52-year-old nurse on trial in Stockholm for causing the death of 23-year-old Emil Lindell by not sending an ambulance in response to his calls for help told the court on Monday he was "completely innocent". https://www.thelocal.se/20111114/37330 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:12:00 +0100 37330 Emergency services operator SOS Alarm receives heavy criticism from the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) for severe flaws in their judgements of ambulance call-outs. https://www.thelocal.se/20111112/37312 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:19:00 +0100 37312 The mother of a 22-year-old Swedish woman who died after being denied an ambulance because she was “still talking” has reported the incident to Swedish health authorities. https://www.thelocal.se/20110907/36000 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:57:00 +0200 36000 A 60-year-old woman from southern Stockholm is suspected of having made between 1,500 and 2,000 calls to emergency services since the beginning of the year, according to a report in Swedish newspaper Metro. https://www.thelocal.se/20110812/35498 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:32:00 +0200 35498 Rather than send an ambulance to respond to a call from an injured woman in Borlänge in central Sweden, emergency services operator SOS Alarm elected to call on an elderly couple living nearby to check on her instead. https://www.thelocal.se/20110805/35372 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:43:00 +0200 35372 After sustaining an open chest wound of 10cm long while trimming her horse’s mane, Sweden’s emergency response services refused to send an ambulance, suggesting the 11-year-old girl take aspirin instead. https://www.thelocal.se/20110624/34548 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:49:00 +0200 34548 Two people were killed and eight people injured when a minivan ran off the road and flipped Saturday night in northern Sweden. The severity of injuries sustained by the eight is unclear. https://www.thelocal.se/20110619/34444 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:06:00 +0200 34444 A woman from northern Sweden died after four calls placed over a four day period requesting to have an ambulance sent to her home in Timrå were ignored. https://www.thelocal.se/20110614/34338 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:43:00 +0200 34338 A Swedish woman died in hospital after being forced to call for an ambulance four times, according to a report filed with the National Board of Health and Welfare. https://www.thelocal.se/20110601/34118 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:26:00 +0200 34118