Mark Hemmings died in agony after being continually refused an ambulance to take him to hospital. The 41-year-old had been struck down with gallstones and a routine operation would have saved his life. Despite sounding in agony during two 999 calls and a conversation with and out-of-hours doctors agency, medics failed to react to his his increasingly desperate pleas for an ambulance, and when they finally did it was too<br />late. Paramedics eventually arrived at Mark's flat two days after his initial call, after his care worker found him seriously ill and called 999. He later suffered a cardiac arrest. Mark was finally taken to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and died just 30<br />minutes after.
