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Article: Three-hour delay for broken hip pensioner; 71-year-old's wait for ambulance after fall.(News)
- Article from:
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: DAVE HIMELFIELD
WAIT: above) A PENSIONER who broke her hip in a fall had to wait three hours for an ambulance.
And daughter Carol Holmes believes a communication breakdown was responsible for her mother Audrey Brennan's wait.
Ms Brennan, 71, of Moldgreen's Douglas Avenue, fractured her right hip falling on her kitchen floor on the evening of October 30.
Ms Brennan, who has Parkinson's disease and arthritis, had been dropped off at her home by Carol and her husband, John, earlier that evening.
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