A private ambulance service criticised over the death of pregnant nurse has lost its contract with an NHS trust.
Stabile Sibanda, 28, bled to death at home after a two-hour wait for an ambulance dispatched by Phoenix Response Services.
At an inquest earlier this year, the coroner questioned whether the ambulance’s crew, which did not include a trained paramedic, could have focused on getting the nurse to hospital faster.
Stabile Sibanda, 28, pictured, called emergency services at 1.11am on July 23 last year and told the call handler she was having abdominal pain and thought she was having an ‘ectopic pregnancy’
The nurse had called emergency services in July last year to report abdominal pain, which she believed was an ‘ectopic pregnancy’, the inquest heard.
But when technicians working for Phoenix Response Services arrived at her flat in Ascot, Berkshire, over two hours later, they ‘very quickly ruled out’ her theories.
After an independent tendering process, the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has not renewed Phoenix Response Service’s contract.
A Trust spokesman insisted: ‘This decision is entirely unrelated to the care provided to Ms Sibanda or the coroner’s findings.’
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