According to new research, patients have to wait in ambulance queues outside of A&E for hours before being seen by a doctor. Last year more than 300,000 ambulances were forced to queue outside of hospitals in England with patients inside. With a national waiting time target of 15 minutes, one patient waited for more than eight hours in an ambulance before being seen by a doctor.
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An NHS report has revealed that last month an 87-year-old man died after an East Midlands Ambulance Service crew lost the keys to their vehicle. The elderly man had suffered a cardiac arrest on a local golf course, Derbyshire golf pavilion, and died there despite having been provided with treatment. The report does not explicitly state that the lack of hospital transport was the reason for his death, but it has been listed as one of the eight EMAS incidents that were highlighted as being particularly serious in October.
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