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999 - Emergency
Just watching a recent episode of “999 - what’s your emergency?”
It concentrated on the dire shortage of ambulance crews in Wiltshire and the consequent massive delays in getting help to people.
For instance, a75-year-old woman who’d fallen in her garden, broken her hip, and who was left lying on her grass on a cold evening (February) for over two hours, as the ambulances were all busy with higher priority calls.
Outrageous.
Austerity? All because governments have baled out the spivs and barrow boys in their banks and the Stock Exchange!
Will any of THEM be lying, in pain, for hours in the cold if they fall down? Will they heck as like.
It concentrated on the dire shortage of ambulance crews in Wiltshire and the consequent massive delays in getting help to people.
For instance, a75-year-old woman who’d fallen in her garden, broken her hip, and who was left lying on her grass on a cold evening (February) for over two hours, as the ambulances were all busy with higher priority calls.
Outrageous.
Austerity? All because governments have baled out the spivs and barrow boys in their banks and the Stock Exchange!
Will any of THEM be lying, in pain, for hours in the cold if they fall down? Will they heck as like.
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I kind of lost sympathy with ambulance crews after waiting 11 hours for them to turn up, and having eventually delivered the dying patient to hospital, proceeded to spend the next hour telling me their grievances and urging me to complain. I thought they must have finished their shift but upon enquiry, no they hadn’t. Nevertheless they were very clearly in no rush to tend the sick. There’s more than one side to every story.
Theland, shame on me why? For refusing to subscribe to the culture that decrees criticism of the NHS and its workers the most heinous of crimes? I don’t do holding hands and dancing around sanctimonious Maypoles. I live in rural England, my nearest hospital is 20 miles away. A GP ordered an ambulance and during the 11 hour wait I had three calls from the control centre who were aware that the patient didn’t need medical treatment but nevertheless organised two unrequested visits from paramedics – both of whom came from another hospital – a 50 mile round trip for each – and neither of whom could do anything whatsoever to help. How much did that cost the NHS? The ambulance crew eventually arrived and having delivered the patient to hospital, stayed whilst she was assessed, taken to a ward, and tucked up in bed. I asked why they stayed – wasn’t their duty finished once the patient was handed over to doctors? No, it wasn’t. The rules, apparently, dictate that the crew cannot leave until the patient is settled on a ward. Why? I have no idea – and neither did they. They were with us, I would estimate, about 3 hours, so if that’s the norm my question is how many patients are they actually attending to per shift? Frankly, despite having waited so long, I didn’t complain to them and had every sympathy with them - until they lingered around expounding their grievances and urging me to complain. Management of the organisation leaves much to be desired, for therein lies the rot, but that said, I perceived no sense of urgency from those men whatsoever – and knowing there were people waiting for them, as we had, and likely in need of medical assistance, that didn’t impress. Better hope it’s not you waiting for them the next time they air their grievances instead of getting on with the job. No apology from me.
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Could be they are busy dealing with 'problems' like this:
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The College of Paramedics define a Paramedics’ scope of practice as;
“A paramedic is an autonomous practitioner who has the knowledge, skills and clinical expertise to assess, treat, diagnose, supply and administer medicines, manage, discharge and refer patients in a range of urgent, emergency, critical or out of hospital settings”.
The HPCP Council describes their skills as:
‘understand the following aspects of biological science:
– disease and trauma processes and how to apply this knowledge to develop appropriate treatment plans for the patient's pre-hospital or out-of-hospital care’
‘know[ing]the indications and contra-indications of using specific paramedic techniques in pre-hospital and out-of-hospital care, including their limitations and modifications
“A paramedic is an autonomous practitioner who has the knowledge, skills and clinical expertise to assess, treat, diagnose, supply and administer medicines, manage, discharge and refer patients in a range of urgent, emergency, critical or out of hospital settings”.
The HPCP Council describes their skills as:
‘understand the following aspects of biological science:
– disease and trauma processes and how to apply this knowledge to develop appropriate treatment plans for the patient's pre-hospital or out-of-hospital care’
‘know[ing]the indications and contra-indications of using specific paramedic techniques in pre-hospital and out-of-hospital care, including their limitations and modifications
My original point, skewed by others' agendas, was neither to criticise nor to praise the ambulance service of Wiltshire (although the paramedics do deserve huge praise and thanks from us).
It was to ask the question: what sort of society do we live in where we give priority to shovelling money at bankrupt banks and down-on-their-luck city spivs, rather than funding a 100% effective emergency service for our old and sick?
(And yes of course vetuste, there is a real debate to be had on how and where we spend money on the NHS, I quite agree, but only as a broader debate on where we spend ALL 'our' money.)
BillB
It was to ask the question: what sort of society do we live in where we give priority to shovelling money at bankrupt banks and down-on-their-luck city spivs, rather than funding a 100% effective emergency service for our old and sick?
(And yes of course vetuste, there is a real debate to be had on how and where we spend money on the NHS, I quite agree, but only as a broader debate on where we spend ALL 'our' money.)
BillB
there may be more ambulances available if it wasn't for fake calls and people with stupid things, like this.
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