‘40,000 put at risk last month’ while waiting in ambulance

West Midlands Ambulance Service FT

More than 38,000 patients were put at risk of harm during March – more than 4,000 of them seriously – while they waited in an ambulance outside hospital, according to estimates shared with HSJ.

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