Patients facing increasingly long and agonising waits for ambulances

Patients facing increasingly long and agonising waits for ambulances The latest figures indicate just how severely emergency care within the NHS is struggling and how that is putting patients with urgent and life-threatening care needs at risk. No matter the reason for calling an ambulance, patients face increasingly long and agonising waits for it to arrive. People suffering from heart attacks or strokes are on waiting on average nearly three times longer (52 minutes) than they should be (18 minutes). For other urgent calls, waiting times for one in 10 people have reached over seven hours, forcing many to make their own way to accident or emergency departments. Nuffield Trust

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• Against incredible strain, NHS makes serious inroads into treatment backlogs NHS Confederation
• NHS Activity Tracker July 2022 NHS Providers
• Pressure on NHS emergency services getting worse in England BBC News
• Southampton General Hospital says 12-hour waits for emergency patients BBC News
• NHS' worst summer ever laid bare: Heart attack patients now wait 52 MINUTES for an ambulance The Daily Mail
• NHS backlog hits 6.6m and ambulance delays worsen amid warning of ‘chronic crisis situation’ The Independent
• NHS crisis: ‘24 hours in A&E is no longer a documentary it is a way of life’ The Independent
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