ED staff ‘wanted to delay ambulances’

By Ben Clover2019-06-14T11:36:00

The Care Quality Commission found standards have dropped at a struggling emergency department where a nurse told inspectors: “We don’t want to release the ambulances because we know they will return with more patients.”

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