The boss of an NHS trust was driven to A&E by her husband during the pandemic after fearing an ambulance would not arrive in time. Deborah Lee, chief executive of Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust suffered a suspected stroke during the pandemic.
In a series of tweets, Mrs Lee said she had now recovered but has called for urgent action to be taken by the Government to address the issue. She said: “I can’t get one thing out of my head: What if my husband hadn’t been there and my daughter had called for an ambulance and I’d been put in the Cat 2 ‘stack’?”
Mrs Lee, who has more than 30 years of experience in the NHS, said her husband had heard her “lamenting” ambulance delays, so chose to drive her to A&E when she displayed symptoms of a stroke, rather than call 999. Ambulance response times in England have risen to their worst levels on record, figures show.
