A dad has revealed that he "wouldn't be here right now" if he hadn't listened to his gut and made his own way to the emergency room, after suffering from a cardiac arrest.
After revealing that he was forced to drive himself to the hospital after waiting nine hours for an ambulance amid the NHS pressures, Darrel Wilson, 54, is now using his own experience to urge people who need critical care to "get a taxi" rather than dial 999.
The dad-of-four recalled the moment he needed to call for an ambulance at 10:20pm on October 8 last year after he started experiencing severe chest pains while at home.
