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Wait times for patients arriving by ambulances at hospital A&Es in England fell slightly last week, according to the latest figures.
One in five patients waited at least half an hour to be handed over from ambulance teams to hospital staff, with a total of 16,410 delays of 30 minutes or more were recorded across all acute trusts in the week to 10 December.
