Its quite maddening when we have an eight minute orcon to make for cat "A" calls when we can be the "only available vehicle" and have to travell across an entire city to get to the patient, we do some ambulance magic, get the patient on board arrive at the A&E dept and thats when our hearts sink, looking up the corridor at the other crews "tied up" with their patients. Not only do you know that it may be a good half hour to be triaged, you also know your patient needs a bed so the patient, the patients family and us the crew join the end of the que knowing that there may be a delay of up to three hours at times. We appologise to the familly as we slowly move up the que, by the time we have a trolley space we feel we have known the familly for years. We hand over, triumphant! but as were leaving passing other crews that have congrgated behind us we get the sneaky feeling were going to be joining the end of the que pretty soon! Ironically there "are no problems at the A&E dept" so the finger points at the ambulance service who " roll over" and admit blame????!!!!