Patient dies in ambulance after 30 minute A&E wait

A patient has died following a cardiac arrest after waiting in an ambulance for 30 minutes outside the emergency department of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

 

A statement from the hospital said the patient had a suspected infection and was assessed and treated by a doctor in the ambulance.

 

In the statement, the hospital said Friday, when the event happened, was “a very busy night for our hospital.  We were alerted by the ambulance service of a patient arriving by ambulance at our emergency department with a suspected infection.

 

“On arrival, the patient was immediately assessed and treated by an emergency doctor, but after 30 minutes went into cardiac arrest and was transferred from the ambulance to our resuscitation unit for further treatment where they sadly died.”

 

This news follows recent similar recent events where a patient suffered a fatal heart attack last month in the back of an ambulance after it had been queuing for more than two hours outside James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, and a patient died in an ambulance outside Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge after waiting for over an hour.

 

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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

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