>A union representative recently told me that the priorities of the management of the ambulance service I work in are, in this order: themselves, the service’s image, the budget, patients, and finally the staff.
The only thing I disagree with is that staff are on the list at all. Bullying from management, bullying from dispatch, the morale on the front lines is absolutely dire.
What? The applause didn’t work? Will they have enough ambulances for the 40 extra hospitals ?
We went over crisis point months ago. No investment, no interest from government.
I called for an ambulance last weekend I had severe food poisoning.
They called me back and said they can’t get 1 to me and that I should go to the hospital.
I couldn’t get myself to the hospital so I lay on the floor for 48 hours in agony and thought it was my last moments of life.
Luckily I started to recover but yea I’m in a big city (Bristol) and this wouldn’t of happened 10 years ago.
Too many people to deal with now and the services are at maximum capacity.
We need twice as many hospitals here in the UK minimum
Pay paramedics more, improve staffing levels, invest in the service and increase the sentencing for those who assault them. It’s all doable, yet the Tories will not do any of that because they are not interested in helping people do their jobs. Spending money and thinking beyond the next election are two things they have no interest in, so help is only going to come about with a new government.
Genuinely, I don’t think it would be as bad if A&E treated everyone equally.
I’m not avoiding the fact there’s not enough funding etc. – but literally my brother called for an ambulance when he lives 2 minutes away from the hospital for his son because he was being continually sick. I was like, why didn’t you just drive yourself instead of wasting an ambulances time. Their answer was “Because if we don’t get an ambulance, we have to wait hours”
Basically an ambulance is an excuse to skip the queue and its ridiculous…
Probably because all the ambulances are being used for tiktok videos.
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>A union representative recently told me that the priorities of the management of the ambulance service I work in are, in this order: themselves, the service’s image, the budget, patients, and finally the staff.
The only thing I disagree with is that staff are on the list at all. Bullying from management, bullying from dispatch, the morale on the front lines is absolutely dire.
What? The applause didn’t work? Will they have enough ambulances for the 40 extra hospitals ?
We went over crisis point months ago. No investment, no interest from government.
I called for an ambulance last weekend I had severe food poisoning.
They called me back and said they can’t get 1 to me and that I should go to the hospital.
I couldn’t get myself to the hospital so I lay on the floor for 48 hours in agony and thought it was my last moments of life.
Luckily I started to recover but yea I’m in a big city (Bristol) and this wouldn’t of happened 10 years ago.
Too many people to deal with now and the services are at maximum capacity.
We need twice as many hospitals here in the UK minimum
Pay paramedics more, improve staffing levels, invest in the service and increase the sentencing for those who assault them. It’s all doable, yet the Tories will not do any of that because they are not interested in helping people do their jobs. Spending money and thinking beyond the next election are two things they have no interest in, so help is only going to come about with a new government.
Genuinely, I don’t think it would be as bad if A&E treated everyone equally.
I’m not avoiding the fact there’s not enough funding etc. – but literally my brother called for an ambulance when he lives 2 minutes away from the hospital for his son because he was being continually sick. I was like, why didn’t you just drive yourself instead of wasting an ambulances time. Their answer was “Because if we don’t get an ambulance, we have to wait hours”
Basically an ambulance is an excuse to skip the queue and its ridiculous…
Probably because all the ambulances are being used for tiktok videos.