to the next morning. she has nothing but praise for the nhs staff involved but describes the situation as chaotic. it's really opened my eyes to the pressures that they are under and how overwhelmed they are, because i've heard loads of stories, people always talk about these things and you don't really believe it or you think it's only in the big hospitals. but this is happening everywhere. new figures show the pressure facing hospitals in england. last week a fit of ambulances had to queue for at least 30 minutes before discharging their patients. the number of people who then had to wait to be moved on to a hospital ward has hit a record high. last month, 120,000 patients were held in a&e for four hours before the transfer with more than 16,000 waiting for more than 12 hours. these figures represent tremendous pressures throughout the whole system, from primary care and ambulance services to the emergency department patients, to our general wards and to patients then being discharged