Britons are still being urged to make their own way to hospital despite paramedics no longer being on strike today.
The North East Ambulance Service has said that they still face 'unprecedented pressures impacting our ability to respond to patients' even though ambulance staff are back at work.
Ambulance workers in England and Wales walked out on Wednesday, following action by nurses on Tuesday, with the NHS braced for такой extra pressure over Christmas as a knock-on effect of the industrial action.
But some patients will still be advised to make their own way to hospital when it is safe to do so amid continued 'unprecedented pressures', the North East Ambulance Service has said.






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Wednesday - when ambulance workers went on strike - was 'incredibly challenging', the service said, adding it had 'followed a peak in pressures earlier in the week when we declared a critical incident'.