A diabetic student nurse who had a heart attack after waiting almost five hours for an ambulance when she called 111.
She could have survived if she had arrived at the hospital sooner, an inquest had heard. Lisa Day, age 27, a Type 1 diabetic. had been staying at a friend's house when she started vomiting blood, prompting the friend to call 111. But, despite Lisa being given a 30-minute response time, the ambulance did not turn up for five hours because there were not enough available.
The service was so delayed that it had a backlog of 200 cases and ambulances were struggling to reach life-threatened patients. Even those who were meant to be phoning back patients to warn of the delay were unable to keep up with demand because the service was receiving 300 phone calls per hour, the inquest was told.
During the delay, Ms Day's condition deteriorated and she suffered a cardiac arrest. When paramedics arrived, they found her unconscious on a bed. She died five days later at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, North London.
She could have survived if she had arrived at the hospital sooner, an inquest had heard. Lisa Day, age 27, a Type 1 diabetic. had been staying at a friend's house when she started vomiting blood, prompting the friend to call 111. But, despite Lisa being given a 30-minute response time, the ambulance did not turn up for five hours because there were not enough available.
The service was so delayed that it had a backlog of 200 cases and ambulances were struggling to reach life-threatened patients. Even those who were meant to be phoning back patients to warn of the delay were unable to keep up with demand because the service was receiving 300 phone calls per hour, the inquest was told.
During the delay, Ms Day's condition deteriorated and she suffered a cardiac arrest. When paramedics arrived, they found her unconscious on a bed. She died five days later at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, North London.
A diabetic student nurse who had a heart attack after waiting almost five hours for an ambulance when she called 111.
She could have survived if she had arrived at the hospital sooner, an inquest had heard. Lisa Day, age 27, a Type 1 diabetic. had been staying at a friend's house when she started vomiting blood, prompting the friend to call 111. But, despite Lisa being given a 30-minute response time, the ambulance did not turn up for five hours because there were not enough available.
The service was so delayed that it had a backlog of 200 cases and ambulances were struggling to reach life-threatened patients. Even those who were meant to be phoning back patients to warn of the delay were unable to keep up with demand because the service was receiving 300 phone calls per hour, the inquest was told.
During the delay, Ms Day's condition deteriorated and she suffered a cardiac arrest. When paramedics arrived, they found her unconscious on a bed. She died five days later at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, North London.
She could have survived if she had arrived at the hospital sooner, an inquest had heard. Lisa Day, age 27, a Type 1 diabetic. had been staying at a friend's house when she started vomiting blood, prompting the friend to call 111. But, despite Lisa being given a 30-minute response time, the ambulance did not turn up for five hours because there were not enough available.
The service was so delayed that it had a backlog of 200 cases and ambulances were struggling to reach life-threatened patients. Even those who were meant to be phoning back patients to warn of the delay were unable to keep up with demand because the service was receiving 300 phone calls per hour, the inquest was told.
During the delay, Ms Day's condition deteriorated and she suffered a cardiac arrest. When paramedics arrived, they found her unconscious on a bed. She died five days later at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, North London.
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