An elderly man has been rushed to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Police and paramedics were called to Genotin Road in Enfield at around 8.45am today to reports of a man taken unwell.

A spokesman for London Ambulance Service said: “We sent an ambulance crew, two single responders in cars and an incident response officer to the scene.

“The patient, an elderly man, was in cardiac arrest and extensive resuscitation efforts were made both on the scene and on the way to hospital.”