Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident

The Welsh Ambulance Service has declared a critical incident because of increased demand across the 999 service and extensive hospital handover delays.

It said more than 340 calls were waiting to be answered across Wales at the time the critical incident was declared on Monday evening.

In addition, more than half of the trust's ambulance vehicles were waiting to handover patients outside hospitals.

The service is urging the public to call 999 only for serious emergencies as some patients continue to wait many hours for an ambulance.

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Source: BBC, 30 December 2024