03 Profile
Hansard to 9 November 2026 · 31,243 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · A&E & ambulance response
Michael Dickson
Scottish Ambulance Service chief executive
press citation on 1 topic since 23 Dec 2025 · last quoted 23 Dec 2025
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Michael Dickson: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Scottish Ambulance Service chief executive
- Quoted on
- A&E & ambulance response
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 23 Dec 2025
04 On the record · press
What Michael Dickson has said
- bbc.co.uk1
Where Michael Dickson has been quoted
- 01Scotland's A&E waiting times improve ahead of busy festive periodbbc.co.uk · 23 Dec 2025
Verbatim
“Winter is always an exceptionally busy period and as demand on our service increases, we're asking the public to use our service responsibly by only phoning 999 in a life-threatening emergency. Currently over 50% of our calls are managed without having to take patients to A&E.”
Related media coverage
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