[user104658]

Sadly not an unusual story and of course it's because of under-funding and the mess that the Tories have made of the NHS - especially emergency departments. The issue isn't actually a lack of paramedics and ambulances... it's the backlogs for hospital admission. All of the ambulances are stuck in queues outside A&E.

Priority is always going to go to "blue light emergencies" (heart attacks, strokes, serious accidents i.e. when there is heavy bleeding/possible internal bleeding - usually RTC's).

But even considering that - 5 hours is obscene.