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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tim Hanlon

Patients facing TWO day waits for ambulances as paramedics stuck outside hospitals

Patients have been left waiting more than two days for an ambulance in England, new analysis suggests.

Data collected by Labour from Freedom of Information requests shows patients across the country enduring long waits for ambulances to arrive or stuck outside hospitals waiting to be admitted to A&E.

The figures, collected in responses from half of ambulance trusts by the party, showed that in the North West in December a patient waited 65 hours, 38 minutes and 13 seconds for a response to a category 3 call.

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