Thousands of patients were waiting in ambulances parked outside hospitals across Greater Manchester last year, a new report has revealed. Over a 10-month period, 6,688 patients were stuck in ambulances outside hospitals.
In total, 1,313 of these patients were waiting outside hospitals in Manchester, with the majority of them waiting outside North Manchester General. Almost 17,000 patients were still waiting with parademics more than 60 minutes after arriving at hospitals across the city-region during the period up to last month.
Around a third of these patients were waiting to be handed over to hospital staff in Manchester – although some waited within the A&E department itself. It comes as the NHS struggles to keep up with demand this winter as it tries to recover from the impact the pandemic had on health and social care services.
