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Evening Standard
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Alan Jones

Patients not receiving ‘timely care’ in hospital, ambulance workers say

Paramedics are watching patients die because they cannot hand them over to hospital A&E departments quickly enough, according to new research.

Unison said a survey of almost 600 ambulance staff across the UK painted a “grim picture” of patients waiting hours in the back of ambulances which the union warned was affecting their conditions.

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