Mother, 60, dies after doctor cancelled ambulance on its way to her home to 'cut costs' - Daily Mail 5th November 2008

A mother died after an ambulance was cancelled by a doctor in a 'cost-cutting exercise'. Ruth Hedge, 60, dialled 999 complaining of vomiting and a vehicle was dispatched to her home, an inquest heard. But a doctor working on a pilot NHS scheme to cut unnecessary emergency call-outs stood the ambulance down after speaking to Mrs Hedge.

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