asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls eve
and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency, 35% waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
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record in december. those records began in 2017. category two emergency calls which include heart attacks and strokes took one hour and 32 minutes and 54 seconds, to be precise, to reach, on average. the target is just 18 minutes. precise, to reach, on average. the target isjust 18 minutes. an 18 minute target, but on average it took ambulance one hour 32 minutes and 54 seconds to respond to those category two emergency calls, including heart attacks and strokes. the highest priority calls, immediately life threatening cardiac arrest, took ten minutes 57 seconds to reach an average was up again, the worst on record, the target is seven minutes. it comes of course as ambulance crews have faced long waits outside a&e to hand over patients to hospital staff. that obviously is affected by people being on beds who are medically fit to be discharged, but there is not a care package available outside a hospital setting to look after them,