A patient has told of her “scary experience” after being left waiting in an ambulance outside a hospital for five hours.

Roseanna Clarkin suffers from ongoing heart problems, and often has to call an ambulance so she can be assessed.

But when the 39-year-old, from West Dunbartonshire, suffered chest pains in October, she faced the lengthy wait to be seen.

“I was trying to hoover when I got a pain across my chest and back and I couldn’t breathe,” Roseanna told STV News. “I collapsed on the sofa gasping for breath.”

The mum was at home with her children, who phoned the ambulance, which arrived quickly.

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