Six hours to wait for an ambulance for an old lady with a broken leg outside !!!

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An old lady fell in our local park. I hear the bone snap. Her lower leg was not pointing the same way as her foot. It took me and another guy 15 minutes to carry her to a park bench as she was in that much pain. We also had to catch her dog. The guy phoned for an ambulance. They said she was not a priority as she was conscious and with someone. I was not having that. She was getting cold and it was getting colder. There was no way we could get her to the road. Six hours is code for get a taxi to A&E/ E.R we are busy mate. This time I phoned and told them the lady was 75(she was 67), it was a compound fracture (bone through coming the skin...it wasn't ) and she was a lawyer. They prioritized her quickly after that. I sat with her for one hour and let the other guy go to work.. Her friend came with a blanket and the ambulance too her to the hospital. SIX Hours for an old lady alone in a park? Seriously ? Crews deal with 20 hoax calls a day and time wasters on top of that but an old lady in the park with a mangled leg in shock doesn't deserve that.