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'Why do you bring us patients?': Inside Britain's ambulance crisis

Ambulance services are under intense pressure with record numbers of callouts and the most urgent, category-one, calls last month.

The delays in getting patients into hospitals mean they are increasingly struggling to respond.

Long hospital handover delays are increasing the risk of death in an emergency as the scale of the crisis is laid bare with testimonials from a frontline paramedic.

Chief Correspondent David Grossman reports.

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