Covid: Unite calls for Army to ease ambulance waits at A&E

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Union leaders say the Army should be deployed and 'pop-up' wards erected at A&E departments to ease ambulance waits.

She said everything was being done to get people to hospital as quickly as possible, including hiring new staff.

"A couple of good examples are Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where routinely crews will wait three hours."He said NHS staff were "absolutely working their socks off", but that the average turnaround time for call-outs had far exceeded the 20-minutes it was supposed to take.

The Scottish government said the the NHS was facing significant challenges as the pandemic continued.

 

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