{"id":233440,"date":"2025-07-03T01:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233440\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T01:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:23:18","slug":"ambulance-delays-now-biggest-risk-to-public-health-in-northern-ireland-warns-coroner-anne-louise-toal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233440\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulance delays now biggest risk to public health in Northern Ireland, warns coroner Anne-Louise Toal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ambulance delays now biggest risk to public health in NI, warns coroner\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A coroner ruled ambulance delays were a key factor in the death of Christos Mexas (inset)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/32ed843b-46a4-43a8-9ff5-25b1ca9d6f2b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A coroner ruled ambulance delays were a key factor in the death of Christos Mexas (inset)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A woman whose husband died following ambulance delays has said she hopes no other family will have to wonder \u201cwhat if\u201d, after a coroner ruled it was a key factor in his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Wednesday, coroner Anne-Louise Toal told the inquest of Christos Mexas she is to write to health bosses over the increasing number of inquests where ambulances failed to reach patients in time to save their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ambulance delays now biggest risk to public health in NI, warns coroner A coroner ruled ambulance delays were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[34912,1384,17698,23524,211,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-233440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-down-news","10":"tag-mark-bain","11":"tag-mike-nesbitt","12":"tag-nhs","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114786690948935139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}