- An 88-year-old woman, Dorothy Esther Evans, died in hospital after waiting about 24 hours on the floor for an ambulance following a fall at a North Wales care home.
- A second woman, 67-year-old Janet Mary Nixon, also died after waiting more than 17 hours for emergency services following a fall at her home.
- Senior coroner John Gittins warned that further lives will be lost unless urgent action is taken to address severe ambulance response delays.
- Coronial reports highlighted that delays in offloading patients at hospitals remain one of the primary causes of ambulance unavailability.
- The Welsh Ambulance Service and Welsh Government expressed condolences and said that work is underway to reduce hospital handover times to under 45 minutes.
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