The number of ambulances in London facing a delay when handing patients over to A&E has risen by nearly a tenth in three weeks, new figures show, as NHS bosses warn that hospitals are “struggling to get patients through the front door and out the back”.
More than a quarter (26.7 per cent) of all ambulances in London faced a delay of over 30 minutes when transferring patients into emergency care on January 28 – a rise of 9 per cent on the figure reported three weeks before.
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