Heart attack patients have been forced to wait three hours for an ambulance in one of England’s worst affected areas, in a sign of the ever-worsening NHS crisis.
NHS chiefs in Cornwall admitted they are ‘not proud’ of the 200-minute average wait time for Category 2 calls — which is 11 times the national target of 18 minutes.
It is the worst response time on record for the area. One 90-year-old grandmother in the county had to wait 40 hours