A HR director who died of sepsis after being denied antibiotics was stuck outside a hospital in an ambulance for almost three hours, an inquest has heard.

Samantha Brousas, 49, from Gresford in Wales died on 23 February last year, two days after being admitted to Wrexham Maelor Hospital.

Ms Brousas’ daughter, Sophie, a fourth-year medical student, told the inquest that she saw her mother in the ambulance outside the hospital where she was refused antibiotics.

The inquest heard how paramedics had told Me Brousas' daughter that they could not administer antibiotics in the ambulance, despite asking whether her mother had sepsis and if she should be given the medication.

She said that “No-one from the hospital came out to see her in the ambulance", but that she trusted the paramedics because they were professionals.

When Ms Brousas was admitted to A&E it took a further hour before she was administered antibiotics, before being transferred to an intensive care unit there she died less than 48 hours later from septic shock and multiple organ failure.

Her partner, Simon Goacher, told the hearing in Ruthin, North Wales, that both he and his partner had common cold symptoms over the New Year period.