Ambulance crews spent 3,500 hours parked outside Nottingham hospitals last month while waiting to hand over their patients. That’s the equivalent of almost 300, 12-hour paramedic shifts. The Nottingham University Hospitals Trust accounted for 25 per cent of all the time East Midlands ambulances lost at hospitals in March, despite receiving only 12.5 per cent of patients. Across the region, EMAS staff spent a total of 13,801 hours waiting for patients to be transferred into hospitals. The ambulance service covers Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northampton…
