{"id":662441,"date":"2025-12-30T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662441\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:27:14","slug":"fall-in-south-yorkshire-ae-ambulance-handover-times-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662441\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall in South Yorkshire A&#038;E ambulance handover times &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anna Parry, from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, said the system was not a case of abandoning patients and that good quality care required &#8220;close collaboration&#8221; between ambulance service employees and those working in emergency departments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, it is also imperative that the key reasons for the bottlenecks being caused at hospitals are addressed nationally, especially delayed discharge of patients who are fit to go home and gaps in social care that prevent many from doing so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The national standard for patient handovers which emergency departments are supposed to aim for is 15 minutes, but the average handover time at hospitals for all English ambulance services is 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">YAS said pressures across the health and social care system contributed to delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government has previously said it was spending \u00a3450m tackling hospital waiting times, and that included 40 new same-day emergency care centres, which treated and discharged patients in the same day and avoided them being admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also said it would roll out almost 500 new ambulances across the country and proposed 15 mental health crisis assessment centres to help people avoid waiting at A&amp;E departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Parry, from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, said the system was not a case of abandoning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-662441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115808518085960652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}