More than 4,000 ambulance patients hit with hour-long A&E waits outside Greater Manchester hospitals
More than 4,000 sick patients have had to wait for more than an hour outside hospitals in ambulances, the Manchester Evening News can reveal.
The Manchester Evening News has already revealed that over the course of just one day last month, almost 150 sick patients had to wait more than an hour to be seen by A&E teams after being taken to hospitals in Greater Manchester by ambulance. A total of 4,079 patients were forced to endure a delay of more than an hour between arrival and handover - 14 per cent of all arrivals. Meanwhile, the data shows a further 4,448 faced delays of between 30 and 60 minutes. The delays added up to a total of 7,196 lost hours for ambulance crews.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust in Norfolk had the worst record of any trust in England. Some 59 per cent of all ambulance arrivals have had to wait more than an hour to be admitted at the trust since November 14, the data shows. One issue facing the NHS is an inability to discharge patients. The NHS publishes daily data on discharges. Using the last Thursday of December 2022 as a snapshot, the figures show how many people were taking up beds despite being well enough to leave.
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