NHS England data shows that 1,087 ambulance handovers were made at the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the week commencing December 23 – and 556 (51.1 per cent) took longer than 30 minutes.
A spokesperson for the trust, which runs York and Scarborough hospitals, told The Press its hospitals are “currently under extreme pressure with high levels of attendance and ambulance arrivals”.
This, they said, is “coupled with high numbers of patients waiting to be discharged who no longer need to be in hospital”.
These issues mean “delays in admission to the emergency department and delays in our ability to hand over ambulances in a timely manner”, the trust spokesperson said.
The Yorkshire Ambulance Service said it will continue to work with its partners to address handover delays.
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