Peter Parker

“there remain wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”

“ambulances waiting at Emergency Departments to hand over patients, meaning that the ambulances are not therefore responding to calls for assistance”

“(1) The delay in an ambulance being despatched to the home address of the deceased who was clearly experiencing seizures/fits.”

“During the course of the inquest the reason given for the significant delay to respond to the call was ambulances waiting at Emergency Departments to hand over patients”

“unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”

“ambulances waiting at Emergency Departments to hand over patients, meaning that the ambulances are not therefore responding to calls for assistance”

“The target turnaround time for ambulances at A&E is wildly unrealistic.”

“During the course of the inquest the reason given for the significant delay to respond to the call was ambulances waiting at Emergency Departments to hand over patients,”

“unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”

“ambulances waiting at Emergency Departments to hand over patients, meaning that the ambulances are not therefore responding to calls for assistance.”

“ambulances are unable to offload patients into the Emergency Department which then causes the community delays as ambulances are not readily available.”

“the reason for the delay was due to ambulances waiting to offload patients at hospitals, in accordance with the ambulance's duty of care, and therefore not responding to emergency calls as is their purpose.”

“handover delays are impacting upon response times in respect of patients requiring emergency treatment &/or conveyance to hospital.”

“the reason given for the significant delay to respond to the call was ambulances waiting at Emergency Departments to hand over patients, meaning that the ambulances are not therefore responding to calls for assistance.”

“Despite having their full complement of ambulance resources staffed and on shift many of them were held up by delays in handover at hospitals;”

“During the course of the inquest the reason given for the significant delay to respond to the call was ambulances waiting at Emergency Departments to hand over patients,”

“During the course of the inquest the reason given for the significant delay to respond to the call was ambulances waiting at Emergency Departments to hand over patients”

“It appears to remain the case that the lack of social care provision and/or Community Hospitals means that those fit to be discharged from district general hospitals are not discharged”