Ambulances outside the Royal London Hospital in east London
(Picture: PA)The number of patients waiting more than an hour inside an ambulance to be admitted to hospital in London has risen sharply, according to new figures, as NHS trusts grapple with record demand, strikes and a rise in flu cases.
The latest NHS England figures show that more than one in seven patients arriving in an ambulance (16.2 per cent) waited longer than 60 minutes to be handed over to hospital staff in the week up to December 18 - a rise of over 6 per cent in a month.
