The delay 'significantly reduced' the chances of the man surviving stroke, inquest told.
A man died after waiting nearly two-and-a-half hours for an ambulance to arrive in Cornwall
The call handlers suspected he was having a stroke and graded him as a priority two - meaning an ambulance should have reached him within the national target of 18 minutes. "The average stroke patient has a one in three chance of a positive outcome following treatment by thrombolysis in the first hour following a stroke.
In a preventing future deaths report to Health Secretary Steve Barclay, Mr Cox said hospital bed-blocking and ambulance delays were "recurring themes" in the cases.He said he had been told by the medical director at the South West Ambulance Service Trust that delays were being caused by ambulances being in the "wrong place at the wrong time".
The coroner said the Royal Cornwall Hospital's medical director had told him there had been at times the equivalent of five wards of patients fit for discharge, but they could not leave due to problems with the social care sector.
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