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"The system is broken" - GPs drive patient to hospital after three hour wait for ambulance

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Doctors from a GP in Wilmslow had to drive a patient to the hospital after waiting three hours for an ambulance. Staff at the Wilmslow Health Centre posted the moment they escorted an elderly patient to hospital after he had collapsed at their practice on Monday night (January 22) .

In the video that was posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, the patient is seen receiving treatment before Dr Vicki Saunders speaks to the camera and says that they have been 'waiting three hours' for an ambulance that should have arrived in '30 minutes'. Try MEN Premium now for FREE...

just click here to give it a go. Dr Saunders says the man is 'clinically deteriorating' and that they have taken the 'really difficult decision' to get him to the hospital themselves.

In the clip, doctors Fari and Amar Ahmad take the man to Macclesfield Hospital. Stood outside the hospital, Dr Amar says that the ambulance service is not at fault and adds that they filmed the incident, with permission from the patient, to show how the NHS system is 'totally broken'.

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