‘It was terrifying’: GP tells of dash to A&E amid ambulance delays

Yorkshire doctor faced choice of ‘stay and play’ or ‘scoop and run’ with patient on brink of cardiac arrest“The patient was at serious risk of dying in my GP surgery. But there was no ambulance available. So we had to drive her to A&E and hope she didn’t die on the way.”A GP recalls the dramatic action he took recently for a patient at risk of having a cardiac arrest because she could not breathe.The writer is a member of the grassroots network GP Survival