A Victorian woman is outraged after she was forced to drive her 91-year-old mother to hospital when she was denied an ambulance following a serious fall at home.

Great-grandmother Lois Casboult suffered a brain bleed and broken pelvis after falling at home on Sunday night.

Her daughter Janne McFadyen drove her from Drouin, 90 kilometres east of Melbourne, to hospital in Warragul after attending paramedics and the virtual ED determined she did not need an ambulance.

"I probably should have jumped up and down more and insisted on an ambulance taking her to hospital, but I didn't," McFadyen said.

"You're at the whim of the medical profession, you think they know everything, you know."

Casboult is now recovering at West Gippsland Hospital, with no date set for when she can return ho

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