At some emergency wards, patients wait more than 12 hours before they are tended to.
Corridors are jammed with beds carrying frail and elderly patients waiting to be admitted to hospital wards.
Now, for some parts of the UK, it could take up to 62 hours to get an ambulance to come to your door.
A patient waited 62 hours for an ambulance, while four trusts took more than 24 hours to respond to 999 calls, new figures have shown.
The longest delays in the UK were recorded by Welsh Ambulance Service, which kept four patients waiting for more than 50 hours.
Between June 2017 and June 2018, ambulances from four services took 24 hours to reach patients, including some with breathing and mental health problems.
Caroline Hardaker's mother Sylvia, 79, lay on paving stones in her back garden for three-and-a-half hours after falling and breaking her hip in High Wycombe.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/08/30/the-wonders-of-socialized-medicine-waiting-62-hours-for-an-ambulance-n2514325
Corridors are jammed with beds carrying frail and elderly patients waiting to be admitted to hospital wards.
Now, for some parts of the UK, it could take up to 62 hours to get an ambulance to come to your door.
A patient waited 62 hours for an ambulance, while four trusts took more than 24 hours to respond to 999 calls, new figures have shown.
The longest delays in the UK were recorded by Welsh Ambulance Service, which kept four patients waiting for more than 50 hours.
Between June 2017 and June 2018, ambulances from four services took 24 hours to reach patients, including some with breathing and mental health problems.
Caroline Hardaker's mother Sylvia, 79, lay on paving stones in her back garden for three-and-a-half hours after falling and breaking her hip in High Wycombe.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/08/30/the-wonders-of-socialized-medicine-waiting-62-hours-for-an-ambulance-n2514325
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