There were about 24 ambulances ahead of Glynn Evans when he attended the hospital in 2022.
A retired teacher said he waited 18 hours to be treated in hospital after a heart attack in Cornwall.
When he arrived at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro there were about 24 ambulances in the queue ahead of him, and he was seen in hospital at around 14:00, about 18 hours after his wife first called 999. Mr Evans, who now lives with heart failure, said: "The doctor who treated me was furious that I had to wait so long."There’s nothing that anyone can do about my long wait now. But I don’t want anyone else to have to wait that long and miss out on the best available treatment.
Staff were working "tirelessly", they said, to avoid delays in ambulances being able to handover the care of patients, which they called "the result of pressure not only on the main emergency department but across the entire health and care system".
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