Monday, June 1, 2009

Patients forced to wait hours in ambulances parked outside A&E departments

Ambulance chiefs have warned that lives are being put at risk ''on a daily basis'' by long delays allowing patients into Accident and Emergency units.

An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of 999 patients are being left to wait in ambulances in car parks and holding bays, or in hospital corridors – in some cases for more than five hours – before they can even join the queue for 'urgent' treatment...

[The unavoidable evolution of government run health care. Don't believe, ask someone from Britain or Canada....]


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