'Lost hours' for ambulances waiting to hand patients over to hospitals are the worst on record.
He said more resources were being put in but there was not a "magic wand".
Patients who are medically well enough to be discharged from hospital often have to remain on the ward because of a lack of social care in the community. Recent initiatives have been introduced to release those crews should the most urgent, life-threatening "red calls" come through, but in many cases there was simply nowhere within the hospital for those patients to be placed.Overall waiting times for hospital treatment have grown again to the worst on record - 754,677 patient pathways on the list.
The group, including royal colleges, charities, professional bodies and patients' groups said they faced a "miserable winter" and called on the Welsh government to publish a comprehensive workforce strategy outlining how it intends to fill gaps.
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