Regulator slams ambulance handover delays

One patient had to wait for almost an entire day outside of a hospital.

Inspectors have slammed long ambulance handover delays (PA) (PA Archive)

A health regulator has condemned ambulance handover delays at hospitals after witnessing one patient waiting for almost an entire day in the back of an ambulance.

The crew had to be changed in the middle of the 20 hour-wait at the doors of a hospital A&E in the West Midlands.

Inspectors gave a glowing report of the care provided by West Midlands Ambulance Service, but were highly critical hospital handover delays.