Ambulances with Covid-19 patients stuck queuing outside UK hospitals as country’s health service at risk
Updated: 30 Dec 2020, 21:45
AMBULANCES with Covid-19 patients have been queuing outside UK hospitals as the country’s health service teeters on breaking point.
Shocking photographs today showed lines of ambulances lined up outside the Royal London Hospital and Queen’s Hospital in east London, as well as Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge, with patients unable to gain access to over-crowded emergency departments and Covid wards.
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Ambulances with Covid-19 patients have been queuing outside UK hospitalsCredit: Steve Parsons / PA Wire
England’s hospitals are now dealing with more Covid-19 patients than they were at the peak of the first wave in April.