It is definitely true for Poland. As for UK, I had a flatmate with intense head/chest pain wait for 4 hours for an ambulance because he was diagnosed over the p

It is definitely true for Poland. As for UK, I had a flatmate with intense head/chest pain wait for 4 hours for an ambulance because he was diagnosed over the phone as not being an urgent case (which was probaby right, as he did not die in the meantime) and that was the wait time for non-dying people.