Thousands of patients waited in ambulances outside hospitals last year

Over a 10-month period, 6,688 patients were stuck in ambulances outside hospitals.

In total, 1,313 of these patients were waiting outside hospitals in Manchester, with the majority of them waiting outside North Manchester General.

Almost 17,000 patients were still waiting with paramedics more than 60 minutes after arriving at hospitals across the city-region during the period up to last month.

Around a third of these…