One in four ambulance patients waiting over an hour for A&E handover
Ambulances outside Waterloo Ambulance Station, south London.
ONE in four ambulance patients in England waited over an hour to be handed to A&E departments last week, new figures show.
The NHS England data, published today, shows delays were high across the week, with no clear evidence that strike action by nurses on December 15 had any specific impact.
A total of 16,379 handover delays of more than an hour were recorded across hospital trusts, amounting to 24 per cent of all arrivals by ambulance.
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