Ambulances outside the Accident and Emergency department at St Thomas’s hospital in central London
(Picture: PA Wire)London paramedics are spending their entire shift taking care of patients who are waiting to be discharged into A&E, the head of the London Ambulance Service (LAS) has said.
Dr John Martin, chief paramedic at the LAS, warned that an increasing number of paramedics were becoming “really frustrated” at having to spend hours waiting to hand patients over to emergency departments rather than responding to calls.
