The Royal United Hospital in Bath had longer than average waits for ambulances outside the hospital in January - along with a longer than average wait times for patients to get treatment - but the Trust was not in the top ten of those with the biggest delays.

Data collected by the BBC news company showed that of 471 ambulance arrivals in Bath in January, 72 per cent were left waiting outside for over thirty minutes, or more, to be handed over to health staff inside A&E.

While of the over 36,000 waiting for routine hospital treatments, so not emergency care in December the RUH was exactly average compared to other trusts, with 42 per cent of those patients waiting longer than the government's target time of 18 weeks.

According to the BBC the worst performing hospitals for emergency treatment waiting times, were in Hull, followed by Wye Valley, then Shrewsbury and Telford.

In early January Nub News published a video taken by a reader of the lines of ambulances waiting outside the emergency doors of the RUH.

That showed long lines of ambulances outside the RUH on January 3, and, were, according to the driver who was regularly in Bath, the longest they had ever witnessed.