Almost 100,000 facing excessive wait for serious cardiac care in England

Some patients will have heart attack and die as a result of dangerous' delays, charity warns

Almost 100,000 people with serious heart problems, including some living on borrowed time", are enduring long waits for potentially life-saving NHS care because hospitals are so busy.

Some of them are in such poor health they will have a heart attack and die as a consequence of facing such dangerous" long delays, the British Heart Foundation has warned.