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Scottish Ambulance Service flags risk of handover delays

The Scottish Ambulance Service has published its latest corporate risk register - with hospital delays identified as a "very high" risk to public safety, both due to patients in ambulances being put at risk by handover delays, and due to the impact of ambulances "stacking at local hospitals" on response times. The service has highlighted official data showing that just over a third of ambulance handovers took more than an hour to complete at hospitals in 2025, compared to under 1% pre-pandemic, while the median turnaround time was 49 minutes.

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