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    Overcrowded A&E units forced to turn away ambulance calls on 350 occasions

    It is recognised that the NHS is under increasing pressure

    NHS hospitals were forced to shut their doors to ambulances on more than 350 occasions last year

    because they were too full to cope with more emergency patients.

    The number of times ambulances had to be diverted to other hospitals because of overcrowding

    in A&E jumped by 24 per cent over the winter months in the year to April.

    Over the recent Bank Holiday weekend, the A&E unit at Royal Liverpool Hospital was forced to

    shut as it reached its full capacity on both Sunday and Monday.

    Other hospitals to have suffered closures over the last month include Romford, Waltham Forest,

    Bromley, Lewisham, and Newham.

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