A struggling ambulance trust has begged patients to take their own loved ones to A&E if they can.
The North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) has issued an urgent plea for the public to only use 999 for life-threatening emergencies or where patients cannot get there by 'any other means'.
In all other circumstances, they asked patients to call upon friends and family to get them to A&E. 
It comes as all ambulance services have declared their highest level of alert due to overwhelming demand, with one senior ambulance boss describing the situation as: 'The wheels are falling off now.'
An ambulance trust in the North West has urged families to try and convey their loved ones to hospital themselves as paramedics cannot keep up with demand
The ambulance strike will affect emergency services across England and Wales on two days
Ambulances took an average of 48 minutes and eight seconds to respond to372,326 category two calls, such as heart attacks, strokes burns and epilepsy (red bars).

This is nearly three times as long as the 18 minute target but around 13 minutes speedier than one month earlier
Some Britons are already having to take ambulance duties into their own hands.

For example, Nicole Lea had to strap her grandfather, togel hoki88 pictured here after being admitted, to a plank of wood and take him to hospital in the back of a van after the pensioner suffered a severe fall
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