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Kerb quandary

Tuesday 21 June 1994 23:02 BST
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The West Country Ambulance Service NHS trust launched an inquiry after a 15- stone woman was left on a stretcher by a kerb because an ambulance crew would not lift her. Sheila Barber, 36, waited 40 minutes in Chard, Somerset, for another crew.

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