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Investigation: ambulance staffers lay bare a system under strain- BBC Newsnight

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The NHS is in crisis with over 6.6 million people on the waiting list for care and over a 100,000 job vacancies in the service remaining empty.

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It’s being felt significantly in ambulance waiting times which are at record highs.

Newsnight spoke to three ambulance service employees across the course of the week to build a picture of how severely the system is under pressure.

Their testimonials laid bare a service where patients are kept in the back of ambulances because of limited bed capacity in hospitals and thousands of emergency callouts are delayed.

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