Mum-of-four died before Christmas after waiting for an ambulance for 11 hours
A mum-of-four died just days before Christmas, after waiting for an ambulance for 11 hours.
Her family and friends have now set up a fundraising page, where they have described the mum as a "very special" and "well loved" lady.
Hannah Marie passed away three days before Christmas, on December 22, 2022, after suffering from cystic fibrosis.
She became short of breath, and her fiancé James Jackman called for an ambulance at 7.20pm, report ITV News.
Despite being told that he would be put on a priority blue light response, his request for an ambulance was put on hold.
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After arriving into hospital, Hannah was moved to an intensive care unit (stock image) (AFP via Getty Images)And 11 hours after Mr Jackman put out the initial call, the first responders finally made their way to their home at 6.15am, with her fiancé saying that he "couldn't believe the delay".
Immediately, Hannah was rushed to hospital where medical professionals found that her blood pressure was extremely low.
Following this, they moved her to an intensive care unit.
Tragically, in the early hours of December 22 she suffered from a cardiac arrest and passed away.
Mr Jackman believes that the outcome could have been different if the ambulance had arrived moments after his first call-out.
Mother of four Hannah Marie passed away on December 22 (Gofundme)He said: "I think had the treatment started 11 hours previously, we could be facing a different situation, instead of four children without a mother.
"It could have made a difference."
Hannah's neighbour, Fiona Lambden, from Birmingham, has now set up a GoFundMe page to help the family with financial costs relating to the funeral.
Mrs Lambden described Hannah as a "very popular and well loved lady" who was "loved by so many" and "will be sadly missed by so many."
On the fundraising page, she also wrote the money will be used to give the mum the burial "she deserves".
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The neighbour wrote: "Hoping to raise as much as possible for her family to help towards her funeral and to giver her the best send off she deserves."
So far, over £1,500 has been raised, of the £10,000 goal.
News of Hannah's death follows reports that in December, one in four patients waited for more than an hour to be transported to A&E.
A fundraising page has been set up to give the mum the funeral 'she deserves' (Stock image) (NurPhoto via Getty Images)And in the week to November 2022, figures show that there were 22,883 delays of half an hour or longer recorded across all hospital trusts, which was 29% of all ambulance arrivals.
Most recently, last week, one in five ambulance patients in England waited more than an hour to be handed over to A&E teams.
Devastating pictures of patients waiting and lying on the floor of hospital A&E's have taken the internet by storm, as it is reported as the NHS is struggling to cope with crippling demand.
In one horrifying example, a patient at Great Western Hospital in Swindon was left on a trolley for over four days until a bed freed up.
Meanwhile, MPs have urged the government to pass an emergency plan to save the NHS.
In statement given to The Mirror by MP Daisy Cooper, for the Liberal Democrats, she said: “Years of underinvestment and a recruitment crisis has taken our NHS to the brink. Now, more than ever, MPs should be in Parliament passing an emergency plan to save the NHS.
“Every second this Government in hiding wastes just adds more misery to patients, nurses and paramedics alike.
“We must recall Parliament, declare a national critical incident and pass an emergency plan to make this Government act - anything less will not do.”
MPs have urged the government to pass an emergency plan to save the NHS (Getty Images)A doctor has also said that patients are dying because of long waiting times in A&E - two to three days - because the NHS is “broken”, as the doctors’ union on Monday called for ‘immediate’ government action following these reports.
And many hospitals across the UK have recently been faced with hundreds of patients who "should be elsewhere", while people who need beds face 10-hour waits, a paramedic has said.
Richard Webber, a spokesman for the College of Paramedics, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme on Tuesday, 3 January: "I talked to colleagues who work in acute hospitals and they are full of patients who should be elsewhere, they should be discharged out to care homes or need support in the community.
"There is a lack of staff working in social care and a lack of capacity in social care, many hospitals have 100 or 200 patients who shouldn't be in the hospital.
"They should be elsewhere being looked after in social care, they can't be discharged, which means that the patients in the emergency department can't be admitted to hospital.
"So, the absolute focus for me has to be on getting patients out of hospital who are fit, it just seems to me completely bizarre that we have a patient who has been deemed by a consultant as medically fit to go home or to somewhere else for care is left in a bed, or somebody who's not medically fit sits outside on an ambulance for eight or 10 hours waiting to be admitted.
"The real problem is to get patients discharged from hospital and get the system working, and that can only be done by greater investment in social care, and probably better employment, and pay is very, very low in that sector."
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