Ambulance turnaround times are questioned

By The Newsroom
Published 7th Dec 2016, 16:14 BST
Updated 14th Dec 2016, 13:57 BST
More than 2,000 ambulances had to wait more than an hour during patient handovers at Craigavon Area Hospital, it has been revealed.

Ulster Unionist MLA Jo-Anne Dobson, who received the statistics in an Assembly question, described the ambulance turnaround times as ‘outrageous’.

Turnaround times refer to the time between an ambulance arriving at the emergency care department with one patient and ‘clearing’ the area. The target turnaround is 15 minutes

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