East Midlands Ambulance service made it to barely half its emergency calls on time during the late cold snap.
With the area blanketed by heavy blow in the week ending December 5, the service attended just 53.4 per cent of its most serious 999 calls within the eight-minute target time.
The bank said the extreme weather was the ground can the decrease in figures, which had been as eminent as 77 per cent during November.
The low tasting of what could be the first major snowfall of the wintertime is expected to come today.
Forecasters said northern Scotland was set for a cover of snow later, which could open to the remainder of the area by the weekend.
Temperatures will fall below zero and up to 10cm (4in) of coke could come in mountainous areas, with 2-5cm of snow settling in localized patches inland, including the East Midlands, central Scotland and north-west Wales.
