East Midlands ambulance patients have waited five years to get into hospital

East Midlands Ambulance Service patients spent a total of at least five-and-a-half years waiting in the back of ambulances for hospital treatment last year, new figures have revealed.
From April 2015 to March 2016, 98,504 patients had to wait 30 minutes or more to be handed from paramedics to A&E staff, with 18,782 of those waiting 60 minutes or more.
Paramedics are required to wait with their patients before they are seen by clinical staff so notes and observations can be handed over face-to-face.
In total, the amount of time EMAS patients had to wait to be transferred from an... read more
18 October 2016 in
Regional East,
Views: 29
Source: Nottingham Post
Realtime News
- 18:49 Biker dies in crash with ambulance near Lochgair
- 18:49 Arsenal in ‘advanced’ negotiations with Barcelona legend over...
- 18:48 Murdered Palestinian engineer was ‘senior member’ of Hamas
- 18:48 Support for IBS Awareness Month
- 18:48 Scottish couple who 'abandoned young daughters while they got...
- 18:46 Liverpool star Mohamed Salah ‘promised’ Real Madrid transfer on one...
- 18:46 Nigel Clough on 'special' Burton Albion comeback at Sunderland and...
- 18:45 Powers for councils and police to move on travellers could about to...
- 18:44 Weekend rugby results
- 18:43 Novel recipes: a rooftop picnic from Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
- 18:41 Garry Monk reveals how he masterminded Birmingham City's comeback...
- 18:41 'The best free transfer in the history of football' - Birmingham...
- 18:41 Captain Conor Coady is the Wolves star man - here's how everyone...
- 18:41 Matt LeBlanc’s gross story about Rachel’s meat trifle on Friends...
- 18:41 It's now win or bust for PNE in play-off push says Alex Neil
- 18:39 Salford seal promotion to the National League despite defeat as...
- 18:37 Weekend football results
- 18:36 Lethal Bizzle defends Maya Jama over old ‘dark-skinned women’...
- 18:34 Pearce’s first goal helps Leeds United to edge out Barnsley
- 18:30 Pundits agree Antonio Valencia didn’t deserve red card for FA Cup...
- 18:30 Colin Kaepernick honored by Amnesty International for peaceful protest
- 18:30 Jose Mourinho rages at Paul Pogba and Ander Herrera during...
- 18:30 Britain today is living proof that Enoch Powell was wrong
- 18:29 Marking out the route on four-day challenge
- 18:27 WATCH: Kelly Brewster’s niece performs moving dance routine on...
- 18:27 Tina Turner remembers Sheffield concert that was her last-ever show
- 18:27 Last-gasp goal steals points for Basingstoke
- 18:24 NATIONAL NEWS: Swimming pool where three-year-old boy drowned...
- 18:20 Watford eyeing Manchester City, Chelsea and Everton target Mouctar...
- 18:18 Support for IBS Awareness Month
« | ‹ | › | » | |||
Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su |
1 | ||||||
2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
30 |