Three pensioners died as they waited for ambulances in East Sussex, an inquest heard.

Alan Craze, the Hastings coroner, said the three deaths in the summer of 2017 “all involve issues relating to the prompt dispatch of an ambulance”.

Daisy Filby, 90, had to wait for two hours and 25 minutes for an ambulance as she lay face down, unable to move, at her home in Seaford after a fall, Hastings Coroners’ Court heard on Monday.

Her daughter Linda Filby was unable to lift her up and kept ringing 999. She said: “On the final occasion I called the ambulance… I asked them to hurry as she was clearly now in distress.”

Her mother eventually stopped breathing and was pronounced dead after paramedics arrived, 145 minutes after the first call, the inquest heard.