NHS: Ambulance delays as paramedic holds for GP

When ambulance crews bring patients to infirmary they are meant to beryllium capable to handover their patients to A&E unit wrong 15 minutes.

But an investigation by the BBC shows by precocious November much than 11,000 ambulances were spending implicit an hr stuck successful queues extracurricular infirmary each week.

That is 1 successful 7 of each arrivals and the highest since records began successful 2010.

The BBC's wellness exertion Hugh Pym joined 2 members of South Central Ambulance connected displacement successful Milton Keynes to spot the problems this is causing first-hand.