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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pamela Duncan, Rachel Hall and Nicola Davis

Quarter of ambulance patients in England wait an hour to get into A&E after arrival

Ambulances in London
Long waits to get treated in A&E affected 18,720 patients, a far greater number than any experienced in the past six winters. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

More than a quarter of ambulance patients in England waited more than an hour to be admitted to A&E in the last week of 2022, amid “one of the most difficult” winters in NHS history.

Of all those arriving by ambulance in the week to 1 January, 26.3% waited with crews for more than 60 minutes.

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