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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Deaths in ambulances DOUBLE in a year amid hell on the 999 frontline as crews strike

The number of patients who died as they were being taken to hospital in ambulances has more than doubled in the last year.

Grim figures from NHS England reveal that 93 people died while being transferred from ambulances to the wards in 2021/22, compared to 40 the previous year.

Incidents where the patient suffered "severe harm" in transit, such as a lasting injury, tripled from 51 cases to 154 in a year.

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