ONE in ten ambulances now queue for at least an hour to get their patient into hospital. NHS rules say paramedics must aim to be back on the road within 15 minutes. But clogged A&E departments …
ONE in ten ambulances now queue for at least an hour to get their patient into hospital.Ambulances are increasingly forced to queue outside A&E because there is not enough space to drop off their patient and get back on the road But clogged A&E departments mean thousands of crews waste precious time waiting to hand over to nurses.Just one in every 50 call-outs ended with such long waits in 2019, according to analysis by the Health Foundation.
Charles Tallack, data director at the think-tank, said: “The sharp increase in handover delays is a major cause of the increase in ambulance waiting times and is putting patients’ lives at risk.
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