Full list of ambulance A&E handover delays at Greater Manchester hospital trusts

New figures have revealed the proportion of ambulance patients waiting at hospitals in England last week for more than 30 minutes to be handed to A&E teams.

The figures, compiled by the PA news agency from data published by NHS England, shows the total number of handovers where the time was known, and the number of those that exceeded 30 minutes, per hospital trust.

In Greater Manchester, for the week ending January 5, almost 2,000 handovers were recorded with waits of over 30 minutes, before patients were handed over to accident and emergency departments.

Patients across England have been facing significant delays in major A&E departments over December, as the ongoing NHS winter crisis takes its toll on the nation's hospitals.

Nearly half (44.7 per cent) of all patients arriving at major 'type 1' A&Es waited more than four hours from arrival to admission, transfer, or discharge, the latest NHS statistics revealed on Thursday (January 9).

It comes just days after the Manchester Evening News reported how seriously-ill patients were stuck outside Greater Manchester hospitals for over an hour amid the 'worst ever' winter bite.

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One in every 14 of those arriving to hospital by ambulance during the festive season had to wait over an hour before being admitted to both emergency and non-emergency departments.

In order, the latest NHS England data has revealed, for each trust, the total number of handovers where time was known, number of handovers longer than 30 minutes, followed by the percentage of handovers longer than 30 minutes. The smallest trusts – with fewer than 50 arrivals in the week ending January 5 2025 – have been