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West Midlands Ambulance Service: Call for probe after deaths

West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust said there was a correlation between ambulances being stuck at hospital accident and emergency departments and ambulance waiting times.

“If they are stuck at A&E … crews often have to respond from the hospital leading to extended response times,” a spokesperson said.

The trust serves a population of 5.6 million people and covers an area of more than 5,000 square miles, made up of Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Coventry, Birmingham and the Black Country.

Bosses added that research in Shropshire showed providing the same response times in rural areas as urban ones would require them to double staff members and increase fleet numbers by two thirds.

The spokesperson added: “We will continue to work with our partners in health and social care to identify additional measures that can reduce hospital handover delays so that our ambulances can get to patients in the community much more quickly.”


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