Waiting Times Insidea E News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

It is a symptom of a system in crisis. ambulances queued outside a&e unable to hand over their patients or reach others in need. amy knows what that means. two weeks ago she fell from a horse and ruptured her spleen. unable to move, she waited nine hours for the paramedics to arrive. i got very disoriented because i wasn't allowed to move my legs. my legs were really aching and to not be able to move your legs for nine hours, it's not very nice at all. the ambulance did get called 11 times. and they didn't even send out a first aid person to come and see me. the ambulance service has apologise...

Recorded in the latest 24—hour period. that means in the past week, there was an average of 33,034 new cases per day. there were 7,588 people in hospital with covid, according to the latest data. another 182 deaths have been recorded, that's of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid test, taking the average number per day in the last week to 143. 0n vaccinations, 89.6% people aged 16 or over have had theirfirstjab, while 82.1 % are now double vaccinated. the health ministerfor wales, labour's eluned morgan, has apologised for patients having to wait several hours for emergency ca...

I think what we are facing is a lot of frustration, because we are waiting at hospitals and we are hearing the calls on the radio asking for any available crews to respond, and we're just not able to respond, and that is very frustrating. because at the end of the day we are there to provide care and that's what we want to do. waiting times inside a&e are now the worst on record. the four—hour target has never been hit. the pandemic has worsened what was already a decade—long problem. of course i apologise to people within wales who have been waiting for such a long time, but this is an un...

In accident and emergency, in august, nearly 69% of patients waited up to four hours for treatment — the target is 95%. and again in a&e, nearly 8,000 people waited over 12 hours to be seen — the worst on record. the target is zero. and for ambulance call—outs, only 57.6% of the most urgent calls were responded to within eight minutes — the target is 65%. here's our wales correspondent, hywel griffith. it is a symptom of a system in crisis. ambulances queued outside a&e unable to hand over their patients or reach others in need. amy knows what that means. two weeks ago she fell from a ...

For nine hours, it's not very nice at all. the ambulance did get called 11 times. and they didn't even send out a first aid person to come and see me. the ambulance service has apologised, but paramedics likejohn warn there is often little they can do if they are held outside a hospital, sometimes for an entire 11—hour shift. i think what we are facing is a lot of frustration, because we are waiting at hospitals and we are hearing the calls on the radio asking for any available crews to respond, and we're just not able to respond, and that is very frustrating. because at the end of the day w...