A man who called 999 and said he thought he was having a heart attack died after paramedics took five hours to reach him, an inquest has heard.
Martin Coleman, 54, pulled over into a Lidl supermarket car park in Taverham, Norfolk, to call for an ambulance after he began experiencing chest pains and heart palpitations whilst driving home.
He was told by emergency services phone operators to get himself in a comfortable position as he waited for an ambulance to arrive, and so climbed into the backseat of his van to lie down - where he was found by paramedics a whole five hours later.
The car park in which he died was just a 15-minute drive away from Norfolk's largest hospital, highlighting the shocking scale of the NHS crisis and record delays in ambulance services.
In an inquest into his death heard this week, his daughter Roxanne told Norfolk Coroner Yvonne Blake: "My dad was a strong, proud man who would only call for an ambulance if he really needed it.
"I loved him more than life itself. I greatly admired his desire to help anybody.
