A woman of 95 has died after waiting four hours in a queue of ambulances outside a hospital . As Lilly Baxandall arrived at Glan Clwyd Hospital , North Wales , 11 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients . And , by the time she was finally admitted to the Bodelwyddan hospital four hours later , her family said it was too late . The former British Airways catering supervisor , who lived in a bungalow in Abergele , North Wales , developed pneumonia and died the following day . Lilly Baxandall , 95 , was taken to Glan Clwyd Hospital , north Wales ( pictured ) at around 5pm on September 1 last year after a fall . She was not admitted to A & E until 9.50pm , and died the next day . 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 . Labour , which runs the health service in Wales under devolution , has cut health funding by more than 8 per cent since 2010 . 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 . At a pre-inquest hearing yesterday , Miss Baxandall 's great-niece Kate Thomas , a locum doctor who helped care for her great-aunt in the ambulance , said : 'By the time she was admitted it was far too late . ' The court , sitting in Ruthin , North Wales , was told Miss Baxandall ’ s cleaner dialled 999 on September 1 last year when she found her on the floor after a fall . She had a cut on her head but was still conscious . A paramedic arrived soon after but it was two more hours before an ambulance arrived , making it to the casualty department of Glan Clwyd Hospital by 5pm . Coroner John Gittins said Miss Baxandall 's case is particularly concerning as it is the third such case he has had to deal with . At that time , Coroner John Gittins said , there was evidence to suggest 11 ambulances were queuing outside waiting to discharge patients . ‘ Over the course of the next few hours she began to decline and paramedics were becoming concerned at the delay in admission , ’ the coroner said . She was finally admitted at 9.50pm – almost seven hours after the paramedic first arrived . A post-mortem examination found she died of pneumonia due to bleeding on the brain , caused by the head injury . The coroner said he would call a neurosurgeon to give evidence on whether Miss Baxandall would have had a better chance of survival had she been admitted sooner . Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board , which runs Glan Clwyd Hospital , last week said it was struggling due to cuts to the Labour-run NHS – as it urged patients not to go to GPs for free prescriptions to treat minor ailments . The coroner said he was concerned as Miss Baxandall ’ s death was the third he had dealt with recently where ambulance delays were a factor . He ordered bosses of the ambulance service and health board to give evidence at a full hearing , saying the ‘ buck ’ stopped with them . ‘ I am particularly concerned because the issue of ambulance delays is very much on the public agenda , ’ Mr Gittins said . The coroner referred to Fred Pring , 74 , and Clive Turner , 73 , who both died in North Wales after ambulance delays . Fred Pring , 74 ( left ) , died in March 2013 after waiting 42 minutes for an ambulance , during which time his wife called 999 four times . Clive Turner , 74 ( right ) , died a year later after waiting five hours for an ambulance . An inquest into Miss Baxandall 's death at Ruthin coroner 's court ( pictured ) will try to establish why she was kept waiting for so long , and if she could have been saved if she was admitted sooner . Retired gardener Mr Pring died in March 2013 after paramedics took 42 minutes to respond . He suffered heart failure and died before an ambulance arrived . In March 2014 , retired engineer Mr Turner died after waiting five hours for an ambulance while suffering internal bleeding . He was then misdiagnosed at hospital and died the following day . Mr Gittins had ordered the ambulance service to make urgent changes , but yesterday said he now wanted to see ‘ whether things are changing ’ . A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service and Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board said they were co-operating with the coroner and ‘ liaising closely ’ with Miss Baxandall ’ s family . In another case , a man waited almost an hour for an ambulance after severing a finger while mowing the lawn in Nefyn , North Wales . Owen Morgan , 70 , lost his right index finger and severely damaged two others on Friday morning . Last night his family said the delay may have stopped medics from saving his finger .
Lilly Baxandall , 95 , was found on floor of her home with cut to her head . Paramedic arrived at 3pm and called ambulance which got to A & E at 5pm . Miss Baxandall waited in ambulance until 9.50pm when she was admitted . Lost consciousness and died the next day , and inquest into death set up . Coroner says Miss Baxandall 's case is the first he has had to deal with .