I've personally only ever called am ambulance once and they came in 3 mins at 2am in what was a terrifying situation. Until recently the thought of the no one coming immediately to a heart attack or stroke has been unthinkable.
Sadly its reality and even if you have the financial resources...
Well I have one member of one family has died in the past 12 months because the NHS was overloaded and another on my brothers side of the family just before Christmas, without going into detail they were negligent simply due to lack of resources.
From my experience not dealing with social care...
When you underfund a health system this is what you get...
https://news.sky.com/story/excess-deaths-reach-highest-level-since-pandemic-peak-how-much-are-nhs-failings-to-blame-12780446