Full story in The Guardian, 18 February 2018
Patients who have a stroke or heart attack are at risk of harm because so many ambulances are stuck at A&E units that they cannot respond quickly enough to 999 calls, an NHS boss has said.
Wayne Bartlett-Syree, the director of strategy and sustainability at the East of England ambulance service, said the huge number of delays ambulance crews have faced this winter in handing over patients to hard-pressed staff of overcrowded A&E units was to blame.