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Action is to be taken to stop ambulances being stuck outside hospitals in Birmingham and Black Country as winter pressures take hold.

NHS bosses said a number of measures could be implemented to ease the strain on emergency departments and free up beds as hospitals battle to cope with demand.

On Monday (December 8), University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust declared a critical incident after 269 inpatients, including nine critical, were presented to busy A&E departments.

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The previous Monday (December 1) a third of all West Midlands ambulances were stuck outside hospitals waiting to admit patients at some point.

This included 'category two' ambulance responses for p

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