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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

London patients face waits of over an hour for ‘emergency’ ambulance, new NHS data shows

An ambulance outside a hospital (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

(Picture: PA Archive)

London patients with “emergency” conditions are waiting more than an hour for an ambulance, new data shows, as English A&Es also see one of their worst months ever.

Fresh figures released by NHS England on Thursday revealed that ambulances took an average of one hour and one minute to respond to a Category 2 “emergency” call in the capital in July.

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