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Caroline Currie (pictured today) was ushered into a private room as her husband David lay dying

A mother-of-two waited more than an hour in a GP waiting room unaware her husband was dying from cardiac arrest metres away, an inquest heard today.

Caroline Currie was ushered into a private room and refused access to her husband David, 50, after being told doctors were 'stabilising his breathing'.

The 49-year-old recalled hearing frantic nurses shouting 'blue light' and seeing 'medics with defibrillators' shortly after arriving at the surgery at a nurse's request.

Mrs Currie was told by nurses at Fletton Surgery in Peterborough that her husband, who had gone to the GP after complaining of chest pains overnight, had had a 'diarrhoea incident' after he arrived.

She rushed to the surgery on October 3, 2016 with clothes for him but receptionists told her to 'sit down and wait' because there were 'too many people in the room'.

She then received news that doctors were 'determining the cause of death.' 

Dr Kaushik Pillalamarri, who had been treating Mr Currie that morning then entered the room 'shaking', the inquest heard.

Mrs Currie said: 'He shook my hand and I could feel him shaking. 

'I said "when can I see him? Where is David? What is going on? I have been waiting her for an hour and a half. Why have I not been allowed to see my husband?"

'He shook his head and said "it is not looking good. We are running tests to determine the cause of death."

'I turned to him and said "cause of death? Is my husband dead or is he alive?"

Dr Pillalamarri allegedly replied: 'I apologise Mrs Currie, I used the wrong terminology. They are still trying to restart his heart.'

Caroline Currie with husband David and twins Harriet and Eleanor. David went into the GP surgery but nurses did not spot his heart problem immediately 

Mrs Currie told the inquest at Huntingdon Coroner's Court today: 'I heard ambulance sirens and saw medics running past.

'One nurse said 'blue light' while I was sat in reception and I thought that this could not possibly be for David.'

David Currie, 50, died of heart failure after spending more than two-and-a-half hours in the GP's surgery as his wife sat outside 

She asked a receptionist: 'Can I at least go in and help him? I have his clothes.' to which she was told 'no, sit down and wait. There are too many people in the room.'

While she waited nervously in the waiting room, her husband had gone into cardiac arrest and doctors were attempting to restart his heart.

Mrs Currie remained unaware for 'an hour and a half' that David was dying and grew increasingly worried when she was moved to a private room with another nurse who 'was making small talk with her'.

She added: 'I asked again and again when I could see him and I was repeatedly told "they are still trying to stabilise his breathing".

'I gave up asking to see him and grew worried about my children who home with the baby sitter.'

She asked to go home quickly to make her twin daughters' food, but the nurse told her she 'would not advise that'.  

David's wife Caroline, 39 said she arrived at the surgery and witnessed medics 'running around with defibrillators' but that no one told her that her husband was dying

While Mrs Currie waited next door paramedics had taken David to Peterborough City Hospital where he was declared dead at 3pm.

A post mortem concluded he died of acute left ventricular failure which was complicated by gastroenteritis.

Earlier in the day, Mr Currie had arrived at the surgery for an emergency appointment after experiencing hot and cold flushes, chest pain and back pain.

He told receptionists he felt 'unwell' as he 'leaned over the reception desk' with 'his head down', the inquest heard. 

However, one nurse told the inquest that 'at no point' since he arrived at the surgery for his 10.30am appointment, did he complain about chest pain.

Claire Stilgrove said: 'If he had told me he was experiencing chest pain that morning we would have called for an ambulance straight away.

'When he phoned that morning he also did not have chest pains.' 

Mr Currie was later found on the surgery bathroom floor after throwing up and was taken by nurses in a wheelchair to the observation room.

A non-emergency ambulance was then called to arrive in the hour but when he grew pale and breathless, it became clear he was in cardiac arrest and an emergency ambulance was called.

Caroline Currie with her sister Claire Mukasa outside the inquest in Huntingdon today

Dr Pillalamarri told the inquest that he only showed symptoms for gastroenteritis and those alone would 'not qualify for a 999 call'.

He added that had Mr Currie reported chest pains at 'any point during his time', he would have upgraded the non emergency call to a 999.

He said: 'I could never have guessed it was acute ventricular failure in my wildest dreams.

'If only he had said to us he had chest pains. We have an ECG machine in the next room. But when I asked him what he felt he never said he had chest pain.'.

The inquest continues. 

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Caroline Currie (pictured today) was ushered into a private room as her husband David lay dying

A mother-of-two waited more than an hour in a GP waiting room unaware her husband was dying from cardiac arrest metres away, an inquest heard today.
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