Provisional figures out today show there were 420,324 ambulances handovers with known times in January, the highest number for the month since 2020 and a 5.2% increase compared to 399,415 in January last year.

Despite this, the average handover time this January (37:16) was more than 2 minutes faster than January 2025 (39:27) and last week’s average time was almost 5 minutes (4:42) faster than the same week last year.

Read more – NHSE (5/2/26)