Yorkshire Ambulance Service has offered its ‘sincere apologies’ to a widow for ‘the substandard care’ given to her husband and agreed an out-of-court compensation settlement.
The woman was represented by Hudgell Solicitors’ medical negligence team after the 51-year-old father died in front of his devastated wife and three daughters after an ambulance crew left him at home when he was suffering from a hernia which was cutting off blood to his bowel.
The man, of Hull, East Yorkshire, firstly had to wait two hours for the ambulance to arrive, his wife having made three separate calls in that time as her husband’s situation health worsened, finding it harder to breathe and suffering from increasing dizziness.
After examination he was then left at home by the ambulance crew and told to take anti-sickness medication, despite his wife saying he was ‘clearly very unwell’.
Following a legal action led by medical negligence specialist Kirsty Yates, NHS Resolution, representing Yorkshire Ambulance Service, admitted breach of duty of care in failing to take the man to hospital in April 2019, and that had it done so, it is likely he would have undergone surgery and survived.
