Waiting times for handovers between ambulances and hospitals are reaching record levels.
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Ambulance services are under intense pressure, with record numbers of callouts and the most urgent, category-one, calls last month. The delays in getting patients into hospitals mean they are increasingly struggling to respond to these.
In this exclusive BBC Newsnight report, the scale of the crisis is laid bare with ambulances seen in lengthy queues at many of the nation's hospitals and testimonials heard from a paramedic on the frontline of the broken system.
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Ambulance services are under intense pressure, with record numbers of callouts and the most urgent, category-one, calls last month. The delays in getting patients into hospitals mean they are increasingly struggling to respond to these.
In this exclusive BBC Newsnight report, the scale of the crisis is laid bare with ambulances seen in lengthy queues at many of the nation's hospitals and testimonials heard from a paramedic on the frontline of the broken system.
#Newsnight #BBCNews #BBC
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsnight
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