article_snippet: As Miss Baxandall arrived at Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, 11 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients.
article_snippet: It is the latest shocking death threatening to undermine patient faith in the Welsh Ambulance Service, which has met its response targets just once in the past two-and-a-half years.
article_snippet: Labour, which runs the health service in North Wales under devolution, has cut health funding by more than 8 per cent since 2010.
article_snippet: And the cuts have seen longer waits for ambulances, far more people waiting more than four hours in A&E than in England, and poor cancer care.
article_snippet: At that time, Coroner John Gittins said, there was evidence to suggest 11 ambulances were queuing outside waiting to discharge patients.
article_snippet: Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board, which runs Glan Clwyd Hospital, last week said Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board, which runs Glan Clwyd Hospital was struggling due to cuts to the Labour-run NHS – as the Labour-run NHS – urged patients not to go to GPs for free prescriptions to treat minor ailments.
article_snippet: the coroner ordered bosses of the ambulance service and health board to give evidence at a full hearing, saying the ‘buck’ stopped with bosses of the ambulance service and health board.
article_snippet: ‘I am particularly concerned because the issue of ambulance delays is very much on the public agenda,’ Mr Gittins said.
article_snippet: Mr Gittins had ordered the Welsh Ambulance Service to make urgent changes, but yesterday said Mr Gittins now wanted to see yesterdaywhether things are changing’.
article_snippet: A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service and Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board said A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service and Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board were co-operating with the coroner and
article_snippet: A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service and Betsi Cadwaladr Health Boardliaising closely’ with Miss Baxandall’s family.
article_snippet: In another case, a man waited almost an hour for an ambulance after severing a finger while mowing the lawn in Nefyn, North Wales.