The Exeter based South West Ambulance Service say delays outside hospitals at Christmas badly affected them.
Nationally ambulances wasted nearly 43-thousand hours over Christmas queuing outside hospitals to hand over their patients.
New research has found they had to wait for more than an hour on 11-thousand occasions in England.
The NHS had to spend money hiring crews from private companies or St John Ambulance.
Neil Le Chevalier from the South West Ambulance Service says delays affected the region very badly.
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