Ambulance wait times across the board are the worst they've been for a very long time.

Graph shows category "C2" - not quite life or death, but potentially. Target is 18 minutes wait, but average is now over an hour. Almost 80 minutes in the Midlands and the SW. 2/

Once you get to A&E, waits to be seen are longer than ever. 31% of people now wait longer than 4 hours (target is 5%!).

Unsurprisingly about 5-6% of people leave before being seen - some of those really needed to be seen.

Over 8% of people wait longer than *12 hours* - up from basically 0% pre pandemic.
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One of the big issues causing these long waits is that hospitals are full and finding it difficult to discharge people ready to go - often frail older people who have nowhere safe to go with a broken social care system.

About 25% of beds in general wards are occupied by adults otherwise fit to be discharged.

Just since April this year, that's an extra 300,000 days in hospital for patients staying at least a week longer than doctors thought they needed to. 4/

Of course, many people aren't even getting in to hospital for either inpatient or outpatient care.

1.5 million people are waiting for diagnostic tests (30% longer than 6 weeks).

Over 7 million people (1 in 8 of entire population) are waiting for treatment - the highest number ever. 5/