Emergency care

160,000 risk harm each year from ambulance handover delays

By 2021-11-14T16:23:00

Ambulance

Ambulance handover delays could harm 160,000 patients a year, 12,000 of them severely, according to a structured clinical review of cases by service bosses earlier this year.

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