Exhausted ambulance workers say crippling staff shortages and hours-long delays will send patient deaths rocketing this winter.
Blue light teams are working 14-hour days yet are only managing to deal with half the number of call-outs they did before the pandemic because of time spent in queues outside hospitals.
It means stricken patients and their families can face agonising waits stretching up to 12 hours for ambulances to arrive.
