NHS ambulance trust lost 12k hours to handover delays in one week

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NHS ambulance trust lost 12k hours to handover delays in one week
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South Western Ambulance Service is releasing a plan to reduce waiting times for patients.

In 2020, SWASFT was able to deliver Category 2 mean response times of less than 30 minutes.But in the week commencing 26 September, the response times to these calls was almost two hours.'Some improvements'

In a bid to improve on this, the trust's commissioners have shared steps to reduce the weekly time lost to handover delays to around 2,600 hours a week by March 2023.

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