{"id":882,"date":"2016-10-18T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:45:41","slug":"ambulances-forced-to-wait-at-ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/ambulances-forced-to-wait-at-ae\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulances Forced To Wait At A&E"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ambulances are being made to wait at busy A&E units as there are not enough staff to take the patients, figures in England reveal.<\/span><\/p>\n

When an ambulance arrives at hospital, A&E staff are supposed to take over the care of the patient within 15 minutes, leaving the ambulance free to attend other 999 calls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Data reveals that this target is not being achieved, and that the number of ambulances having to wait for more than an hour has almost trebled in two years. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015 to 2016, 76,000 ambulances waited for more than an hour to hand-over a patient, up from 28,000 in 2013 to 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those having to wait more than 30 minutes rose from 258,000 to 413,000 in the same period \u2013 an increase of 60%.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one incident this year, an ambulance in the West Midlands was made to wait for four hours. <\/span><\/p>\n

NHS bosses say that \u201cincreasing demand\u201d is to blame, with the pressure on A&E units being so great that no one is available to see to ambulance patients within the required time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ambulance crews must stay with their patient until the hand-over is complete, making them unavailable to attend other emergency 999 calls. <\/span><\/p>\n

It has been suggested that this is one of the reasons why ambulances are failing to meet their target of reaching a critically ill patient within eight minutes. <\/span><\/p>\n

Talk to a solicitor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you would like to talk to a solicitor about making a medical negligence claim, please get in touch with us at Glynns Solicitors. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ambulances are being made to wait at busy A&E units as there are not enough staff to take the patients, figures in England reveal. When an ambulance arrives at hospital, A&E staff are supposed to take over the care of the patient within 15 minutes, leaving the ambulance free to attend other 999 calls. Data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1572],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accident-and-emergency","tag-accident-emergency-medical-negligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}