She added: 'We were not able to hand over our patient to the hospital before the end of our shift, so a day crew drove to the hospital and took our patient on, which released us to go home.' What part of this is sustainable Sajid Javid?' 'Meanwhile, people are dying waiting for ambulances. 'That's not because there's no demand, but because we were stuck at hospital for the entire duration, waiting for bed space. Ms Shepherd wrote on Twitter yesterday morning: 'During last night's 14.5 hour shift, we saw one patient. The NHS has long struggled to meet its recommended ambulance response times for Category 2 incidents which include medical emergencies such as strokes and severe burns but the last few months months have seen unprecedented rise with patients waiting nearly an hour on average for an ambulance after calling 999 It came as South East Coast Ambulance Service declared a 'critical incident' because of a 'significant' IT issue, and urged patients to avoid calling 999 where possible. Paramedic bosses have said crews are currently seeing two to three patients in a shift, whereas normally they would get to up to eight. The unprecedented demand, combined with worsening handover delays, has left heart attack and stroke patients waiting nearly an hour for an ambulance. In the same month, more than 7,000 patients waited 12-plus hours to be seen in A&E in October - more than triple the number in the same month pre-Covid.
More than 1.3million emergency calls were made in England in October - up 273,025 on the same period last year, the latest figures show.
She also described how her ambulance was 23rd in a queue of 25 vehicles stuck outside waiting to offload patients at an emergency department in a separate incident last month. The student, on placement at South Western Ambulance Service, warned that the handover delays are leaving 'people dying waiting for ambulances'.
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Faye Shepherd (pictured), who is on placement at South Western Ambulance Service, warned about the handover delaysĪ trainee paramedic has revealed how she treated just one patient during a 14-and-a-half hour shift, in an example that lays bare the scale of the NHS crisis.įaye Shepherd said she spent the entire shift on Monday caring for the patient in the back of an ambulance while waiting for a bed to free up in A&E.