Heart attack patients told to take themselves to hospitals amid severe pressures
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Heart attack patients told to take themselves to hospitals amid severe pressures

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Patients in the West Midlands, including some of those suffering heart attacks, are being asked to get themselves to hospital amid worsening pressures on ambulance services this winter. The West Midlands Ambulance Service has advised its 999 call handlers to ask patients if they can make their own way to the hospital when services are under high demand. West Midlands Ambulance Service confirmed that in some cases it is asking people if they can make their own way to hospital, and if they can’t, help will be arranged. The West Midlands Ambulance Service said: “Our staff and volunteers across the service are working exceptionally hard to get to patients as quickly as possible.

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Welsh Ambulance Service declares ‘very rare’ critical incident due to high demand
6 days, 21 hours ago

Welsh Ambulance Service declares ‘very rare’ critical incident due to high demand

The Independent  

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More than third of ambulance patients wait at least 30 minutes for A&E handover
1 month ago

More than third of ambulance patients wait at least 30 minutes for A&E handover

The Independent  

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Ambulance crews are being ordered to dump severely ill patients in hospital corridors if there are no emergency doctors around
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Ambulance crews are being ordered to dump severely ill patients in hospital corridors if there are no emergency doctors around

Daily Mail  

Ambulance staff have been instructed to leave severely ill patients in hospital corridors if they're forced to wait longer than 45 minutes to hand over to emergency medicals teams. Ambulance staff have been told to leave patients in hospital corridors if they wait longer than 45 minutes London ambulances began testing a policy which saw ambulance crews not wait for …

Undercover footage shows ‘suffering indignity’ faced by patients in emergency care in England
6 months, 1 week ago

Undercover footage shows ‘suffering indignity’ faced by patients in emergency care in England

The Independent  

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Ambulances stuck in hospital queues ‘lost’ almost two million hours last year
1 year, 3 months ago

Ambulances stuck in hospital queues ‘lost’ almost two million hours last year

The Independent  

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Ambulance delays at A&Es prevent crews attending 155,000 callouts a month
1 year, 3 months ago

Ambulance delays at A&Es prevent crews attending 155,000 callouts a month

The Telegraph  

Delays to ambulances being able to hand patients over to A&Es last year could have prevented crews attending as many as 155,000 jobs each month. New analysis from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives found that two million hours were lost by paramedics waiting outside emergency departments beyond the 15-minute target time in the 12 months to March 2023. A …

Lib Dems demand ambulance staff boost before winter pressures
1 year, 4 months ago

Lib Dems demand ambulance staff boost before winter pressures

The Independent  

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Some patients forced to wait more than two days for ambulances, new data shows
1 year, 8 months ago

Some patients forced to wait more than two days for ambulances, new data shows

The Independent  

Patients have been left waiting more than two days for an ambulance in England, a new analysis suggests. The data also showed that the longest waits for an ambulance following category 2 calls in the West Midlands and Yorkshire meant patients were left waiting over 21 hours. “Trust leaders are working extremely hard to recover urgent and emergency care services …

Four million calls to NHS 111 abandoned last year with waiting times of 25 minutes
1 year, 8 months ago

Four million calls to NHS 111 abandoned last year with waiting times of 25 minutes

The Independent  

Almost 4 million calls to the NHS 111 service were abandoned last year as callers struggled to get through to the helpline. “The Conservative government’s record on health has been a shambles and today’s figures are yet further proof that we cannot trust them to run the NHS.” With a junior doctors’ strike looming this week, some NHS trusts across …

Some patients who call 999 to be redirected to GP or treatment centre
1 year, 10 months ago

Some patients who call 999 to be redirected to GP or treatment centre

The Independent  

NHS leaders have welcomed a plan for some patients who call 999 to be redirected to a GP or an urgent treatment centre. The focus is on ensuring patients’ needs are met in the right place – whether that’s a hospital or a community setting – and that more urgent category 2 calls, such as for a suspected stroke or …

Ambulance handover delays outside England’s hospitals lower than last winter
1 year, 11 months ago

Ambulance handover delays outside England’s hospitals lower than last winter

The Independent  

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Revealed: Ambulance delays cause ‘severe harm’ to record 6,000 patients a month
1 year, 11 months ago

Revealed: Ambulance delays cause ‘severe harm’ to record 6,000 patients a month

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A record number of patients suffered “severe harm” as a result …

Revealed: Record 50,000 patients a week face 12-hour A&E waits
1 year, 11 months ago

Revealed: Record 50,000 patients a week face 12-hour A&E waits

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Leaked NHS data shows that last month as many as one in eight patients faced …

Ambulance handover delays remain high with one in five waiting over an hour
2 years ago

Ambulance handover delays remain high with one in five waiting over an hour

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy One in five ambulance patients in England waited more than …

Urgent care patients facing five-hour ambulance waits in London
2 years ago

Urgent care patients facing five-hour ambulance waits in London

The Independent  

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Ambulance handover delays are the worst on record
2 years, 1 month ago

Ambulance handover delays are the worst on record

The Telegraph  

Ambulance handover delays have reached the worst level on record, with more than a quarter of patients left stranded outside hospitals, data show. The new figures from NHS England provide the first weekly snapshot of how hospitals are performing this winter, amid record A&E pressures, waiting lists and discharge delays. Service is being ‘severely compromised’ Martin Flaherty, managing director of …

Heart attack responses a ‘shambles’ as patients face eight-hour ambulance waits
2 years, 2 months ago

Heart attack responses a ‘shambles’ as patients face eight-hour ambulance waits

The Independent  

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12 hours on ambulance front line with ‘the one service which cannot say no’
2 years, 4 months ago

12 hours on ambulance front line with ‘the one service which cannot say no’

The Independent  

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NHS has ‘broken’ its promise to the public over the ambulance service
2 years, 5 months ago

NHS has ‘broken’ its promise to the public over the ambulance service

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The NHS has broken its “fundamental promise” to the public that …

Ambulance service facing sort of pressure normally seen in winter, says minister
2 years, 5 months ago

Ambulance service facing sort of pressure normally seen in winter, says minister

The Independent  

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Scottish Ambulance Service at breaking point as waiting times soar, say Tories
2 years, 7 months ago

Scottish Ambulance Service at breaking point as waiting times soar, say Tories

The Independent  

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West Midlands Ambulance Service could collapse, nursing director says
2 years, 7 months ago

West Midlands Ambulance Service could collapse, nursing director says

The Independent  

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NHS ambulance crisis saw one patient 'wait 24 HOURS outside busy A&E'
2 years, 7 months ago

NHS ambulance crisis saw one patient 'wait 24 HOURS outside busy A&E'

Daily Mail  

An NHS patient had to wait 24 hours in the back of an ambulance outside A&E last month, it was revealed today. This is nine minutes and 41 seconds quicker than one month earlier The number of safety incidents logged by ambulance trusts in England has skyrocketed 77 per cent in the last year compared to before the pandemic, official …

Patients in ‘danger’ amid rocketing ambulance delays and A&E waits
2 years, 8 months ago

Patients in ‘danger’ amid rocketing ambulance delays and A&E waits

The Independent  

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Ambulance crews 'overwhelmed' as emergency patients left waiting for hours, union says
2 years, 11 months ago

Ambulance crews 'overwhelmed' as emergency patients left waiting for hours, union says

ABC  

Emergency patients across Adelaide were left waiting up to seven hours for an ambulance to arrive last night amid "overwhelming" strain on South Australia's health system, the union says. Key points: In one case, a paramedic drove their own mother to hospital when an ambulance didn't arrive, the union says The SA Opposition described last night as the "worst ever …

Tenfold increase in patients waiting over eight hours to be transferred from ambulance to A&E
3 years ago

Tenfold increase in patients waiting over eight hours to be transferred from ambulance to A&E

The Telegraph  

Crisis was ‘avoidable’ Dr Ian Higginson, the Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said bed capacity in hospitals is limited due to wards being split between Covid and non-Covid patients. Separate figures released this week showed around 10,500 hospital beds are being blocked by patients every day who are fit enough to be discharged, representing around one …

One in 10 ambulance patients ‘waiting more than an hour’ for A&E handover
3 years ago

One in 10 ambulance patients ‘waiting more than an hour’ for A&E handover

The Independent  

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Trainee paramedic reveals she cared for just ONE patient in 14.5 HOUR shift because of queues
3 years, 1 month ago

Trainee paramedic reveals she cared for just ONE patient in 14.5 HOUR shift because of queues

Daily Mail  

Faye Shepherd, who is on placement at South Western Ambulance Service, warned about the handover delays A trainee paramedic has revealed how she treated just one patient during a 14-and-a-half hour shift, in an example that lays bare the scale of the NHS crisis. It came as South East Coast Ambulance Service declared a 'critical incident' because of a 'significant' …

Patients suffer 35,000 hours in ambulances as waiting times soar
3 years, 2 months ago

Patients suffer 35,000 hours in ambulances as waiting times soar

The Telegraph  

The amount of time patients spend stuck in ambulances outside hospitals has risen seven-fold over the summer, new figures have revealed. Two deaths linked to handover delays Earlier this week, hospitals across England were ordered to “eliminate” ambulance queues outside hospitals after two deaths were linked to handover delays. It follows reports of the deaths of two patients subjected to …

Eliminate ambulance queues, hospitals told after deaths linked to handover delays
3 years, 2 months ago

Eliminate ambulance queues, hospitals told after deaths linked to handover delays

The Telegraph  

Hospitals in England have been ordered to “eliminate” ambulance queues after two deaths were linked to handover delays. It came after NHS chiefs warned of “catastrophic harm” being caused to patients in a growing crisis, with some dying before they could be reached because so many ambulances were stuck outside hospitals. Prof Stephen Powis, the national medical director of NHS …

More than 200 patients crowd into A&E at London hospital
3 years, 3 months ago

More than 200 patients crowd into A&E at London hospital

The Independent  

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‘Unrelenting’ pressure forces hospital to turn away non-emergency patients from A&E
3 years, 4 months ago

‘Unrelenting’ pressure forces hospital to turn away non-emergency patients from A&E

The Independent  

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Ambulance services had busiest month ever, with more than one million 999 calls
3 years, 4 months ago

Ambulance services had busiest month ever, with more than one million 999 calls

The Telegraph  

Around seven million people who might have needed care during the pandemic are estimated to have stayed away and, as some of them come forward, there will be further rises in waiting lists, he said. The statistics show 32,400 calls per day for ambulance services in July, with a total of more than one million calls – a nine per …

‘The system is broken’: Patients waiting 10 minutes for 999 calls to be answered
3 years, 5 months ago

‘The system is broken’: Patients waiting 10 minutes for 999 calls to be answered

The Independent  

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Patients face 15-hour wait in hospital A&E as summer crisis grips NHS
3 years, 5 months ago

Patients face 15-hour wait in hospital A&E as summer crisis grips NHS

The Independent  

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‘There is no question patients are coming to harm’: Ambulance trusts on ‘black alert’ as 999 demand soars
3 years, 5 months ago

‘There is no question patients are coming to harm’: Ambulance trusts on ‘black alert’ as 999 demand soars

The Independent  

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Exclusive: ‘Risk-averse’ NHS 111 algorithm piling pressure on ambulances
3 years, 6 months ago

Exclusive: ‘Risk-averse’ NHS 111 algorithm piling pressure on ambulances

The Telegraph  

NHS 111 is piling the pressure on ambulances because medically untrained call handlers and "risk-averse" algorithms are sending paramedics to patients suffering with minor ailments such as period pain. Adrian Boyle, the vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the problem was largely being driven by the NHS 111 algorithm that is "too risk-averse". "What we find is …

Return to crowded A&Es and long ambulance delays will put patients at risk, warn experts
3 years, 8 months ago

Return to crowded A&Es and long ambulance delays will put patients at risk, warn experts

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A “system failure” of the wider NHS system to support patients means more people are …

Patients forced to take taxis to hospital during medical emergencies
3 years, 10 months ago

Patients forced to take taxis to hospital during medical emergencies

ABC  

As ramping issues continue throughout Adelaide, the ambulance union says patients have been forced to catch taxis to hospitals. Key points: Fifteen people were left without ambulances on Tuesday, the ambulance union says The union says employees are struggling trying to keep up with continued demand The State Government is investigating what happened on Tuesday The Ambulance Employees Association has …

Ambulances carrying Covid patients pictured queuing outside hospitals amid calls for third lockdown
4 years ago

Ambulances carrying Covid patients pictured queuing outside hospitals amid calls for third lockdown

The Independent  

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Hospitals at ‘breaking point’ as winter NHS crisis deepens
5 years ago

Hospitals at ‘breaking point’ as winter NHS crisis deepens

The Independent  

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Hospitals accused of 'gaming the system' by moving A&E patients to new day care units
5 years, 5 months ago

Hospitals accused of 'gaming the system' by moving A&E patients to new day care units

Daily Mail  

Hospitals may be trying to 'game the system' to make A&E waiting times look shorter by moving patients to different departments, an investigation has found. By moving A&E patients to new emergency day care units – which aren't included in the four-hour target – hospitals can keep them under the radar. Accident and emergency departments in England are moving their …

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