Ambulance service apologises after pensioner with chest pains dies after hours-long wait An ambulance service has apologised to the family of a pensioner who died after waiting nearly four hours for paramedics to arrive. It took three hours 45 minutes for a crew to reach the home of an 81-year-old woman who rang 999 complaining of chest pains.
The emergency call was made at around 8pm on Tuesday and the woman was still alive when she spoke to the control room again at 9.47pm.
It took another two hours for an ambulance to arrive at her property in Clacton, Essex.
Paramedics then had to break into the home and by the time they reached the woman she had stopped breathing and could not be saved. The Daily Telegraph
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