Patients arriving at hospital in an ambulance were often forced to wait for hours before being admitted due to staff and bed shortages More than 150,000 patients were forced to wait more than an hour for an ambulance to arrive at the height ofvia freedom of information requests, found that one patient was left waiting almost two-and-a-half days for an ambulance in December 2022.
Patients arriving at hospital in an ambulance were often forced to wait for hours before being admitted due to staff and bed shortages. The Government pointed out that ambulance waiting times have fallen from their winter peak and said that hundreds of millions of pounds in extra investment was being spent on the health service.
He added: “Stroke and heart attack victims are left waiting for hours, when every second counts. This is the terrifying reality after 13 years of Conservative understaffing of our NHS. A Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: “No one should have to wait longer than necessary to access urgent and emergency care and we are working hard to improve ambulance waiting times, which have substantially reduced from the peak of winter pressures in December 2022.