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(BBC) Ambulance staff arriving to help after the Manchester Arena bomb prioritised treatment over taking casualties to hospital, the attack inquiry has heard. The Manchester Arena inquiry was told 14 people were not put on ambulances until three hours after the attack. […]

(BBC) A paramedic who treated victims of the Manchester Arena bombing has told an inquiry it was “not suitable” to treat casualties at the blast scene. Lea Vaughan was one of only three paramedics to enter the foyer area, where the device […]

(BBC) A specialist paramedic who treated people injured in the Manchester Arena attack has told an inquiry that more medics “would have helped.” Chris Hargreaves was one of three North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) paramedics to go into the foyer after Salman […]

(BBC) A doctor has told an inquiry he was “overwhelmed” at the number of casualties he had to deal with following the Manchester Arena attack. Dr Michael Daley was on-call and was one of the first medical responders at the scene of […]

(BBC) An ambulance commander has defended his decision to not send more paramedics straight into the scene of the Manchester Arena attack. Consultant paramedic Dan Smith told an inquiry into the 2017 bombing that policy meant the risk was too high to […]

(BBC) A paramedic first on the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing did not give immediate treatment to casualties, an inquiry into the atrocity has heard. Patrick Ennis was one of three paramedics to work at the blast scene. He explained he […]