NHS ambulance delays leaving patients stuck at GP surgeries for hours

NHS ambulance delays leaving patients stuck at GP surgeries for hours Patients experiencing life-threatening emergencies such as heart attacks, strokes or major breathing problems are becoming trapped for many hours in GP surgeries, unable to get to hospital, because ambulances are taking so long to turn up after the GP practice rings 999. The Guardian

See also: 

• NHS responds to highest number of 999 calls on record NHS England
• ‘It’s awful’: what it’s like to work a 12-hour ambulance shift in England The Guardian
• A day with the paramedics on the frontline of the UK’s ambulance crisis – podcast The Guardian
• ‘It’s terrifying’: GP tells of wait with ill patients as ambulance fails to arrive The Guardian