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Every Ambulance Trust in England Goes On ‘Black Alert’ as Ambulances Queue For Hours at Hospitals to Hand Over Patients – But It’s Not Covid

by Will Jones
13 July 2022 9:00 AM

All ambulance trusts in England were put on the highest alert on Tuesday amid long waiting times of many hours in some cases as ambulances queued up outside hospitals unable to hand over patients. MailOnline has more.

Rising Covid staff absences, the escalating heatwave and ongoing delays in handing over patients to A&E have heaped extra pressure on ambulance services which were already in crisis mode.

All 10 trusts have been put on a level four alert known as Resource Escalation Action Plan (REAP) 4, which signals they are under “extreme pressure”.

As part of this, patients with emergencies that are not life threatening could be told to make their own way to hospital or seek alternative care – or face even longer waits than usual…

It comes amid a fifth wave of Covid infections across Britain, with 2.7 million (one in 24) people estimated to have been infected in the most recent week. 

The rise of two mild but highly infectious Omicron sub-strains have caused daily Covid hospital admissions to rise to a near 18-month high, with around 2,000 people being hospitalised with the virus every day. But only a fraction of these are primarily sick with the virus…

South Central Ambulance Service trust has explicitly asked people in the lowest category of callouts to find “alternative treatment and advice” and to not call 999 back to ask about an estimated time unless the patient’s condition has changed.

The service said it was experiencing a growing number of 999 calls coupled with patients calling back about delayed responses.

Meanwhile, West Midlands Ambulance Service said it had been on the highest level of alert for a few months and told HSJ more than half of its ambulance crews were queued outside hospitals at one point yesterday.

A spokesman for the trust said one ambulance crew had to wait 24 hours to hand a patient over.

One senior leader in the north of the country, who asked not to be named, told HSJ the situation was ‘dire’ for both staff and patients…

Last month, the average category one response time was eight minutes and 36 seconds. This is 26 seconds faster than April but 96 seconds slower than the seven-minute target. Ambulances in May took an average of 39 minutes and 58 seconds to respond to category two calls, such as burns, epilepsy and strokes. This is 11 minutes and 24 seconds quicker than one month earlier but more than double the 18-minute target. Response times for category three calls – such as late stages of labour, non-severe burns and diabetes – averaged two hours, nine minutes and 32 seconds. This is down from two hours, 38 minutes and 41 seconds in April. Ambulances are supposed to arrive at nine in 10 category three calls within two hours.

The wait outside hospitals to admit patients seems to be the crucial factor, as according to official data (see below) the actual number of 999 calls isn’t higher than normal, whereas the waiting times have been very high since last summer. This timing corresponds to when the wave of non-Covid excess deaths began in the second half of 2021, a worrying trend which has resumed this spring.

The long ambulance waits despite normal numbers of calls suggest that hospitals are lacking capacity to take patients, whether due to lack of beds or staff shortages. It seems likely that this ambulance crisis is linked to the very high numbers of non-Covid excess deaths that have been accumulating since last July. This all needs urgent investigation by the Government.

Tags: Ambulance ServiceHospital pressuresHospitalsNon-Covid

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

He who believes the authorities have their ducks in a row will forever be a duck.

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Sitting…

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago

Scamdemics. The only pandemic during the Rona dystopia was that of fascism and stupid.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

The WHO and their henchmen like Blair and Vallance are like a biker gang driving around looking for trouble, constantly trying stir up shit somewhere.

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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago

If you are anxious about epidemics then relax with a discrete stochastic simulation – a game of cards that doesn’t grow exponentially and averages to the standard model.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4LgSjGo6Xc

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RW
RW
1 year ago

Just as with COVID death, H5N2 death means death after a positive test for H5N2.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Even though in this case a positive test was impossible.

Yep, the new Scamdemic H5N2.

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago

Well done to that Mexican Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer for telling the truth to the people, in defiance of the Marxist Ethiopian Terrorist still in charge of the World Health Organization.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Heretic

It seems to be going the way of Monkeypox, or should that be Moneypox.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Or even Monkeybollox.

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago

Considering humans have been interacting with just about all the animals on the planet for millennia and that we have migrated around and colonized all of the planet, why is it only recently that viruses decide to jump species?

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  sskinner

That’s because the human race has been infected with WHO roughly in the same way a certain Nostromo crew member got infected with alien lifeform. Periodic outbursts of pandemics WHO uses to sustain itself are the inevitable consequence.

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pjar
pjar
1 year ago
Reply to  sskinner

They’re doing ‘gain of function’ research which is apparently investigating how viruses might develop to jump species… having seen how that went with Covid, they’ve decided it couldn’t possibly go wrong again and are carrying on, with different viruses.

For geeks, they seem woefully ill-informed about a certain genre of sci-fi books and films!

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

A pandemic of bullshit is my best guess.

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