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Ashlea Hickin & Gwyn Wright & Sara Odeen-Isbister

Patient dies after waiting almost two hours for ambulance following operation

A woman died after waiting almost two hours for an ambulance following an operation, an inquest heard.

Barbara Hollis' had felt restless and confused after a routine knee operation at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and doctors decided she needed "immediate clinical intervention" at a high dependency unit at another location.

An ambulance, required to transfer her, should have been there within around 18 minutes and at the most 40 minutes, but took an hour and 45 minutes to arrive, Norfolk Live reports.

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