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Ambulances waiting outside for '12 hours' as hospitals 'not allowing patients in due to bed crisis'
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukAmbulances have been waiting up to '12 hours' outside hospitals with gravely ill patients as wards struggle with a 'bed crisis', one paramedic has told the Manchester Evening News.
North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) staff are left treating patients with severe 'sepsis' and 'smoke inhalation' outside hospitals, with doctors having to attend them inside the ambulances as wards run out of beds, according to the NWAS paramedic.
Amid the scenes in recent weeks and months of ambulances queuing, the paramedic says the number of emergency calls is 'phenomenal', with hundreds going without an ambulance in Greater Manchester.
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