An ambulance worker reveals how difficult the job now is and why they are striking.
Last updated: Friday 6 JanuaryData for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.
Each nation has different target times and ways of categorising data for the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible. "It is not how things should be - and because we have so many ambulances stuck at hospital, we are putting patients at risk.""Social care is not in place," they say. "I'll give you an example - a lady had a fall and was medically fit for discharge on 21 December but because her care package wasn't in place, she was advised that it was safer if she stayed in hospital.
"We are now telling them how long they have to wait, when there are long waits," the dispatcher says. "We are asking them if there is anyone who can convey them to [hospital], because time is of the essence. Sometimes, they don't have that - and three hours later, they can be dead.
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