The longest ambulance handover waiting times were at ... patients already in the emergency departments are unable to find beds and those arriving are unable to be transferred.” ...
Hospitals should free up beds to prepare for "extensive disruption" caused by ambulance staff strikes in England, NHS bosses have urged. They said patients need to be safely discharged where ...
Ambulance ramping — the delay in transferring patients to hospital beds — is a problem not just in major cities' clogged emergency departments, but across regional Queensland as well.