Ambulances are queuing outside the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske this afternoon.
One patient contacted Cornwall Live saying that there were 14 ambulances outside at around 3.30pm with patients inside them waiting to be admitted.
She was inside one of them and said she was told she couldn&apos;t go in because there was no room inside the hospital.
The hospital said that, as of 3.30pm, the current waiting time at A&E was more than two-and-a-half hours, with 30 patients waiting to be seen and 68 patients in the department in total.
Since then the waiting time has increased.
At 4.30pm the wait was three hours and 13 minutes, although the number waiting had decreased to 25 and there were 66 people in the department in total.
By 6pm the wait was listed as &apos;more than four hours&apos;, with 21 people waiting and 55 in the department.
Yesterday morning, ambulances were also reported to be queuing outside the hospital, which remains on level four alert, previously known as &apos;black alert&apos;, a status it was given just before Christmas.
We&apos;ll have updates on this developing situation below.
Waiting time back to "Over four hours"
As we approach 8pm the current longest waiting time to see a doctor and nurse at Royal Cornwall Hospital Treliske’s Emergency Department is “Over 4 hours”.
There are now 60 patients in the department and 23 waiting to be seen.
Minor Injury Units in Falmouth, Helston and Launceston are now closed.
There’s a 53 minute wait at West Cornwall Urgent Care Centre and a 58 minute wait at Camborne/Redruth Minor Injury Unit.
Three hours, forty-one minutes - that’s how long the current waiting time to be seen is now.
The current longest waiting time to see a doctor or nurse at Royal Cornwall Hospital (Treliske)‘s Emergency Department is three hours, eleven minutes.
21 patients are currently waiting to be seen and 57 people are in the department.
The waiting time may have just come down by over a quarter in the last half an hour, but there are still many patients waiting to be seen.
54 patients are currently in the department, with 21 waiting to be seen.
The waiting time is now more than four hours. There are 21 patients waiting and 55 in the department.
The waiting time at RCH’s A&E at 5pm was three hours and 43 minutes, with 21 patients waiting and 56 in the department in total.
One woman, who is waiting in an ambulance with her mother, says she has been there for one hour and 40 minutes now.
Cornwall’s minor injury units are looking quiet in comparison.
Currently, there is little or no waiting time at: Bodmin, Falmouth, Helston, Launceston, Liskeard, West Cornwall, Newquay, St Austell, Stratton and St Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly.
The only unit with a bit of a wait is Camborne MIU, which is at just under two hours.
The waiting time continues to increase, at 4.30pm it was three hours 13 minutes, however the number of people waiting is decreasing, with 25 yet to be seen and 66 in the department in total.
The latest waiting time at the RCH at 4.15pm is two hours 58 minutes, with 28 patients waiting and 71 in the department in total.
One woman, who asked not to be named, is waiting outside the hospital in an ambulance with her mum.
She said: “I had the doctor and the paramedics out as my mum was choking. We waited about 25 mins for an ambulance. I followed behind.
“We arrived and now we’ve just been waiting. The trolleys are all backed up in the corridor.
“I think we’re fourth on the list just to get into the corridor, but there were 14 ambulances outside.
“It’s not fair because the staff are brilliant. It’s not their fault.
“Last time I was in the corridor, but we’ve never had it this bad. This was happening yesterday, but it’s the worst it’s ever been today.
The waiting time in A&E at 4pm is two hours 52 minutes, with 31 patients waiting to be seen and 70 patients in the department in total.
Garth Davies, director of communications at the RCH, said: “We are very busy. We’re not about to call a major incident, but we have opened additional areas and brought in additional staff.
“There is a high volume of patients, like in many other hospitals across the country at this time of year. We are doing as much as we can to promote other services.
“Unfortunately, in recent weeks we have seen this kind of level of ambulances coming in and this level of delays.
“We have rarely been off level four alert in the past few weeks.
More than a dozen ambulances are waiting outside the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske because there is no room inside, it is being reported.