West Midlands Ambulance have busiest day ever
They took close to 5400 calls on Monday.
West Midlands Ambulance say Monday (4th January) was their busiest day on record.
The service took 5,383 999 calls during the day.
That was over 30% higher than the same day in 2020.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said:
“A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.
“We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.
“The public can help us to maintain services by observing social distancing and the hands, face, space advice.”
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