Progress made on A&E handover delay times

AMBULANCE CHIEFS DISCUSS LOST HOURS - AND IMPROVEMENTS

- By LAUREN MONAGHAN

A&E at the Queen's Medical Centre has lost more than 18,000 hours in ambulance handover delays since April 2025

NOTTINGHAM'S A&E has lost more than 18,000 hours in ambulance handover delays since April 2025, performance data has revealed.

East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) executives this week held their first board meeting of 2026 12 to discuss the trust's recent performance, with some improvements noted.

Board papers reveal EMAS lost more than 109,000 hours in handover delays between April 2025 and November 2025.

This refers to how long it takes paramedics to hand a patient's care over to A&E staff.

The national standard for patients to be fully transferred from an ambulance to an emergency department is 15 minutes - EMAS records its lost hours within 'pre-handover' time that has gone above 15 minutes.