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(Picture: PA Wire)The number of ambulances waiting more than an hour to hand over patients to London A&Es has risen by nearly a third in a week amid unprecedented pressure on NHS emergency care, it was revealed on Friday.
The latest figures showed more than 1,800 ambulances in the capital faced a delay of over 60 minutes when handing over a patient to A&E in the week up to January 1. This is a rise of 29 per cent on the week before and comes as experts said the capital’s hospitals are facing their worst-ever winter crisis.
