Over 64,000 ambulances spent over an hour at a hospital last year, before offloading a patient and getting back on the road.
It’s nearly one in every four ambulances that arrived at hospitals.
According to freedom of information figures, the ‘turn-around time’ was over five hours in 165 cases.
David Hall, the chief executive of Lifeline Ambulance Service, says the delays are caused by congestion at emergency departments:
