Coroner demands change after pensioner died following 10-hour ambulance wait

Teesside and Hartlepool Coroner Paul Appleton has written a Prevention of Future Deaths report, saying that more ambulance crews are needed to decrease wait times (Niall Carson/PA) - (PA Archive)

A coroner has demanded action following the death of a 79-year-old woman who had waited 10 hours for an ambulance.

Diana Fairweather-Purkis died from multi-organ failure at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton, two days after she was eventually admitted.