A North West Ambulance Service worker described scenes outside the new Royal Liverpool Hospital as "carnage" as ambulances queued for hours.
A source close to the ECHO described chaotic scenes outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital Emergency Department in recent days as ambulances were held for hours. The source, who works for North West Ambulance Service, told the ECHO patients brought to the hospital in an ambulance are being held for hours as there are not enough beds.
According to the ECHO source, ambulance crews are having to continue to treat patients on the ambulances while they wait for beds to free up. The Royal Liverpool Hospital only has space for "four crews to queue inside", meaning queues of ambulances are forced to wait in the hospital car park.
