Mum, 43, died waiting two hours for an ambulance after heart attack at home

A mum-of-two died portion waiting much than 2 hours for an ambulance aft suffering a bosom onslaught astatine home, an inquest has heard.

Julie Hurn, 43, who lived successful Attleborough successful Norfolk, died of a myocardial infarction – a humor clot stopped her bosom – connected July 7, 2022.

Norfolk coroner Yvonne Blake was told she had primitively phoned for an ambulance astatine 3.26pm aft she experienced thorax paints, with her telephone fixed class 2 status.

She called again astir an hr aboriginal aft she began vomiting, but it was not until soon earlier 5pm that her telephone was escalated.

A neighbour had phoned again to accidental she had gone into cardiac apprehension and paramedics arrived astatine 5.14pm.

Mrs Hurn, who worked arsenic a contracts manager for Norfolk County Council, died astatine 5.48pm, 142 minutes aft her archetypal telephone to exigency services.

The inquest into her decease astatine Norfolk Coroner’s Court heard that it was apt she would person survived if she had received contiguous treatment.

Rajesh Logasundaram, who carried retired a station mortem examination, said: ‘An earlier 999 telephone would person made a important quality to her chances of survival.’

It was revealed connected Tuesday that erstwhile her archetypal telephone was made, 50 of the region’s ambulances were stranded extracurricular Norfolk’s 3 main hospitals.

The incidental happened during a ‘black surge’, a operation utilized to picture a play of acute request connected exigency services and acute hospitals.

Chris Hewitson, a diligent information specializer serviceman astatine the East of England Ambulance Service Trust, said Mrs Hurn’s archetypal telephone was correctly categorised.

But astatine that clip determination were besides 50 outstanding calls with the aforesaid precedence level. He added that determination were 19 ambulances stranded extracurricular of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital alone.

The coroner, Ms Blake, said: ‘The aesculapian grounds we person heard truthful acold is that if she had a cardiac apprehension and either received contiguous attraction oregon was successful hospital, that fixed her property it is much apt than not that she would person survived.’

On Monday, Prof Saul Myerson, a advisor cardiologist based astatine the University of Oxford, said astatine the inquest that a faster effect would person improved her chances.

He said that portion was improbable her bosom onslaught would person been prevented, had she been successful infirmary erstwhile it occurred her endurance chances would person been better.

In a connection work to the court, her member Gary Hambling said: ‘As a household we judge the NHS has fto america down.

‘The clip taken to get an ambulance to her was unacceptable.’

Clare Gooch, a aesculapian negligence lawyer from Switalskis, who is representing the family, said: ‘This has been an incredibly hard clip for Mrs Hurn’s household who are inactive coming to presumption with their loss.

‘They present anticipation this inquest volition assistance to supply immoderate further penetration into the circumstances starring up to her death.’

The inquest continues.

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