The ambulance service is in a “critical” condition as crews get stuck at hospitals for more than a day, risking patients’ lives and causing huge delays in 999 calls.
A poll of ambulance services’ longest delays outside overcrowded A&E departments last month revealed that one West Midlands crew was held for 26 hours in boiling heat on June 6.
In London, also on June 6, a crew had an eight-hour, 23-minute wait.
