A Cornwall family whose father David Wakeley, 87, faced an a 15-hour wait for an ambulance and had to build him a makeshift shelter, have said the system is broken .
Daphne Syms, 90, was left waiting 40 hours for an ambulance after she fell at her home in Saint Austell, Cornwall, and was then kept in the vehicle overnight - while parked outside A&E.
A family in Cornwall was forced to build a make-shift shelter for their 87-year-old father who shattered his pelvis and broke seven ribs, after he waited 15 hours for an ambulance.