More than half of ambulance workers have seen patient die because of delay

NHS ambulances parked outside the A&E department of St Thomas' Hospital in central London. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

More than half of ambulance workers have seen a patient die because of a delay in reaching them after a 999 call or overcrowding in A&E, a new survey has found.

The findings, from a survey of frontline paramedics and other ambulance staff, are another stark illustration of the patient safety risks created by the crisis in NHS urgent and emergency care.