"Freeing up time"

My husband is in residential care and was sent by ambulance to A&E following a collapse. It was particularly busy in Royal Oldham A&E and we waited about 1½ hours in a corridor for a cubicle (Not a problem

the department was heaving), my concern was that the ambulance staff and their trolley had to wait with us. By the time we went in there were patients from seven ambulances waiting. I. e. 14 ambulance personnel and presumably 7 ambulances. To my mind this was 21 hours of time being paid for to wait for trolleys it seems such a shame.

If the hospital had its own trolleys and two people monitoring the patients it would seem a less costly solution. Sounds simple I know but I don’t know the full story!