Patients across Gwent waited more than an hour for an ambulance following calls about the most serious of emergencies, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The South Wales Argus reports:

A PATIENT having a suspected cardiac arrest had to wait more than three hours for an ambulance to attend, new figures showed.

More than 80 patients across Gwent waited more than an hour for an ambulance following a category A (immediately life threatening) call last year.

And some waited longer than two and three hours, with conditions including the suspected cardiac/ respiratory arrest, overdose/ poisoning, and chest pain.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.