SCAS are using a ‘split crew’ system in which only one worker stays with the patient so their crew mate can team up with another ambulance and reduce the number of vehicles queuing outside the hospital

A disabled pensioner lay on the floor after a fall for more than three hours after 999 operators said he was not a priority, his family have said

A South Central Ambulance Service boss said it could not get to 75 per cent of seriously ill patients within eight minutes without peoples’ help

Injured patients are waiting in parked ambulances for longer than an hour outside a North Somerset hospital as doctors struggles to cope with demand

Factors that lead to emergency department overcrowdings, ambulance diversions and other incidents that endanger patient safety have been revealed

The lives of seriously ill patients are being put at risk every day because Government targets are forcing ambulances to wait up to five hours outside hospitals

A leaked memo from the boss of NEAS ambulance service revealed delays have been caused by crews relying on hi-tech Sat-Nav systems

Concerns have been raised for the welfare of elderly patients left on hospital trolleys for hours while they wait to be taken back to care homes