Some patients forced to wait more than two days for ambulances, new data shows

Some 36,000 category 2 patients overall waited more than three-and-a-half hours in December for ambulances

File. Ambulances outside St Thomas' Hospital in London (PA Wire)

Patients have been left waiting more than two days for an ambulance in England, a new analysis suggests.

Data collected by Labour from Freedom of Information requests show patients across the country enduring long waits for ambulances to arrive or being stuck outside hospitals waiting to be admitted to A&E.

The figures, collected in responses from half of the ambulance trusts by the party, showed that in the North West in December a patient waited 65 hours, 38 minutes and 13 seconds for a response to a category 3 call.