This isn’t unique to the PSNI either. Police are being used as a backup ambulance service as ambulance services are unable to cope with current demand. And ambulance services can’t keep up with the demand because of the lack of A&E beds, as this results in ambulances being forced to wait outside, and police officers having to watch over mental health patients for hours on end until beds become available.
Any cardiac arrest, we’ll get called. Any mental health issues, we’ll get called. I don’t know why people think the police are here for health problems.
Obviously, if we come across something the ambulance counts our time of arrival as theirs for their stats, and then takes five hours to do anything about it while some poor person is with us and our basic first aid
This sadly is what happens when you have a government who loves cutting at public services and giving lucrative contracts to their mates.
Nothing exceptionally new, road cars-in particular traffic and ARVs-have carried AEDs, BVMs etc for years now. You send as many cars as you can to a report of patient not breathing and hope someone can get there as soon as possible.
The fire brigade regularly get called to medical emergencies round my way.
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This isn’t unique to the PSNI either. Police are being used as a backup ambulance service as ambulance services are unable to cope with current demand. And ambulance services can’t keep up with the demand because of the lack of A&E beds, as this results in ambulances being forced to wait outside, and police officers having to watch over mental health patients for hours on end until beds become available.
Any cardiac arrest, we’ll get called. Any mental health issues, we’ll get called. I don’t know why people think the police are here for health problems.
Obviously, if we come across something the ambulance counts our time of arrival as theirs for their stats, and then takes five hours to do anything about it while some poor person is with us and our basic first aid
This sadly is what happens when you have a government who loves cutting at public services and giving lucrative contracts to their mates.
Nothing exceptionally new, road cars-in particular traffic and ARVs-have carried AEDs, BVMs etc for years now. You send as many cars as you can to a report of patient not breathing and hope someone can get there as soon as possible.
The fire brigade regularly get called to medical emergencies round my way.