Ambulance chief warns crisis will not improve in 'weeks and months ahead'

A senior official has told a Shropshire MP he cannot see the ambulance crisis improving in the "weeks and months ahead".Daren Mochrie appearing before the health and social care committee at the House of Commons

Ms Allan, who is a member of the committee, had raised the issue of handover delays, highlighting that West Midlands Ambulance Service had lost 44,000 hours while ambulances waited outside hospitals in just one month. He added:"We have also put in more focus in terms of those handover delays, because that is what is really having the issues for both the ambulances crews themselves, because they do not want to be outside the ambulance, they want to be helping people. So we have been working with individual trusts because they have got real issues with this."

She said:"It's absolutely having a devastating affect on our members. Frustration, stress, burnout, exhaustion, low morale, mental health. Our members are tired going to work everyday, and, in some cases, spending the whole of their shift sat in an ambulance outside an A&E department with the same patient."Ms Allan also asked John Martin, president of the College of Paramedics, what they would like to see done to address the issues and improve the situation.

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