Ambulance crews are being ordered to dump severely ill patients in hospital corridors if there are no emergency doctors around READ MORE: How much did YOUR hospital pocket in parking fees last year By Rebecca Whittaker For Mailonline Published: 12:14 BST, 21 October 2024 | Updated: 12:17 BST, 21 October 2024 e-mail View comments Ambulance staff have been instructed to leave severely ill patients in hospital corridors if they're forced to wait longer than 45 minutes to hand over to emergency medicals teams. The move could see patients dumped without being admitted in an attempt to reduce delays for life-threatening emergencies. NHS England has claimed this new 'drop and go' approach would free up paramedics so they could respond faster to 999 calls.
Care Minister Stephen Kinnock claimed the policy was being rolled out as it had 'worked very well' in London . Yet Emergency doctors today criticised the move warning it could 'risk the lives of patients'. Ambulance staff have been told to leave patients in hospital corridors if they wait longer than 45 minutes (stock image) London ambulances began testing a policy which saw ambulance crews not wait for the hospital to be ready to take on a new patient, but instead notify a nurse that after45 minutes they would be leaving.
In these instances patients were left on trolleys in corridors and in A&E waiting rooms to be seen (stock image) Speaking on Times Radio this morning Mr Kinnock said: 'Where there are examples of systems that wor.