Paramedics in England cannot respond to 117,000 urgent 999 calls every month because they are stuck outside hospitals looking after patients, figures show.
The amount of time ambulance crews had to wait outside A&E units meant they were unavailable to attend almost one in six incidents.
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>AACE’s latest monthly statistical report on handover delays also showed that in September:
>673 patients had to wait 10 hours or more to be handed over to A&E staff – NHS guidelines say no one should wait more than 15 minutes.
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>45,000 patients were delayed for at least an hour and 21,000 for at least two hours – just under the highest numbers ever seen.
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>While crews spent 558,000 hours attending incidents, they were unable to complete another 117,000 “job cycles”, which equates to 21% of total ambulance capacity – huge rises on the 45,000 job cycles or 7% of capacity in October 2019
This is just heartbreaking to say the least.
Leadership needs to stop fannying about and make decisions to resolve the NHS crisis
Why does this thread not have 140 odd comments raging about the government blocking of NHS funding?
As people apparently care so much when one ambulance is delayed due to protests closing the Dartford Crossing, and the resultant traffic jams, surely people are going to care infinitely more when 120,000 ambulances are being delayed because the government are intentionally starving the NHS of proper funding, and do not care that it is killing tens of thousands a year.
Ah yes. We haven’t had the total collapse of a service in a few days. Seems about right.
The winter hospital crisis surge has become an annual event after a decade of funding being blocked by government as a matter of it’s standing health policy.
I see it at work so often, at all times too. With available beds often in the single figures, there is just no chance of those patients getting a bed within a day, let alone an hour. My granddad died in the back of an ambulance under similar circumstances earlier this year. I would never blame the NHS, they did the best they could, I absolutely blame the Tories and those who continually voted for them.
It’s really bad, isn’t it
We probably need a war-style coalition to sort things out, then go back to normal in a year or two.
Then again it wouldn’t even work given that the Tories can’t even work with people on their own side.
The ambulances stacking up is the sign that EVERYTHING is full. There isn’t the care in the community or beds for people to go home, there aren’t enough staff to process the people coming in, so ambulances are sat with people in waiting to go into hospital, so they can’t leave to get more people.
It’s utterly insane we’ve got here. People dying on their floors after waiting 15 hours for an ambulance. If you get into an accident, you could well die from something perfectly treatable, just because you can’t get an ambulance.
It’s social murder. Nothing short.