BBC News By Noel Titheradge & Dr Faye Kirkland BBC News image copyrightEPA Ambulances waiting outside busy hospitals over Christmas led to "secondary Covid victims", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said. Information requests show that the number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients rose by 63% in London and 48% in the West Midlands. BBC News has spoken to the widow of a man who died of a stroke, having waited three hours for an ambulance. The NHS said capacity had been freed up despite increasing Covid-19 infections. NHS England said the number of individual ambulances waiting more than 30 minutes across the whole of England from the end of December to the beginning of February, had fallen.