AMBULANCE response times to emergencies are to be investigated by Wiltshire councillors.
At a meeting with Great Western Ambulance Service representatives next month they will be questioning how often the service is missing its targets.
The move follows the death of 88-year-old Doreen Wignall, who waited an hour and 45 minutes for an ambulance after slipping on ice in Ludgershall on December 17.
The patients’ watchdog body the Wiltshire Involvement Network (WIN) has called for an investigation into the delay.
It has since emerged that on the same day, a woman in Salisbury with a fractured arm waited an hour in the London Road park and ride site for an ambulance that never came.
Jill Belletti, who had also slipped on ice, was eventually collected and taken to hospital by her husband.
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