Explaining the delay, Claire Goodfellow said she must have been “distracted” by a phone call.
An ambulance service coordinator took an hour to pass on the case of a man who had a heart attack and later died.
Graham, 59, of Stirling, collapsed in an office at CalaChem, Grangemouth, on May 1, 2020. The probe heard during the pandemic the Scottish Ambulance Service had introduced a system to deal with some 999 calls. The computer system coded the case “teal”. The inquiry heard it then appeared on a spreadsheet in front of Goodfellow, whose job it was to allocate it to a remote-working paramedic who would call those with Graham.
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