“The number of people waiting more than half-an-hour to be transferred from an ambulance into hospital emergency departments in the South West has gone up by about 50% in the last three years.
The figures, from a Labour party Freedom of Information request, showed that in 2013/14, about 17,000 patients were made to wait up to 30 minutes. In the last year, that’s gone up to about 26,000. However, the number of people waiting more than an hour has gone down.
The South Western Ambulance Service declined to comment, saying it was an NHS issue.”
BBC News, Devon Live
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-devon-37624865
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Actually it has gone up from 17,000 to 26,000 in just 2 years – 2013/14 to 2015/16.
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