Targets: An awful lot of this stuff is due to targets. Hospitals have to treat people with x hours of arriving in A&E – if they fail to meet this target they will lose money. But a patient in an ambulance hasn’t ‘arrived’ in A&E – so you refuse to accept them and leave them in the ambulance until you can be sure of meeting targets.
It got so bad in 2019 round our way that the ambulance pitched a tent on the lawn outside A&E and hired agency nurses to look after patients just so it could get some ambulances onto the road.
Abolish the target and this goes away, and ambulance waits will come way down
What the fuck is going on?
> NIAS chief Michael Bloomfield said it was “impossible” to make a direct link with the deaths
> However, only three crews were available at the start of the shift and this was further depleted by one due to onset of illness.
So there was *less* than 3 crews.
> By 03:00 BST, there were only two crews in the area and they were waiting at Craigavon Area Hospital to offload patients.
2 crews… waiting in craigavon.
Craigavon isn’t in the “area” unless you’re looking at NI from fucking orbit.
> The emergency department in Daisy Hill Hospital is still open.
good fuck. Daisy Hill is newry hospital. It’s address is Daisy Hill Hospital. Hospital Road. Newry.
99% of the reason behind why this and other disastrous, tragic events keep happening in NI is that both main politician parties and their idiot supporters only care about the green/orange wedge issues like the protocol, language acts, united Ireland etc.
They’ve allowed these parties away with murder for decades, why change the habit of a lifetime? Cretins.
Source: I’m a northern Irish person who isn’t affiliated with either side and wish they’d all just f*** off.
This is going to be a reoccurring story from now on. Then even of you get an ambulance, they can’t get you into a&e who then can’t get you a bed afterwards. But hey, we get a £200 loan to help us put the fore on for ten minutes on Christmas day, before we all go to our 4th jobs.
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Targets: An awful lot of this stuff is due to targets. Hospitals have to treat people with x hours of arriving in A&E – if they fail to meet this target they will lose money. But a patient in an ambulance hasn’t ‘arrived’ in A&E – so you refuse to accept them and leave them in the ambulance until you can be sure of meeting targets.
It got so bad in 2019 round our way that the ambulance pitched a tent on the lawn outside A&E and hired agency nurses to look after patients just so it could get some ambulances onto the road.
Abolish the target and this goes away, and ambulance waits will come way down
What the fuck is going on?
> NIAS chief Michael Bloomfield said it was “impossible” to make a direct link with the deaths
> However, only three crews were available at the start of the shift and this was further depleted by one due to onset of illness.
So there was *less* than 3 crews.
> By 03:00 BST, there were only two crews in the area and they were waiting at Craigavon Area Hospital to offload patients.
2 crews… waiting in craigavon.
Craigavon isn’t in the “area” unless you’re looking at NI from fucking orbit.
> The emergency department in Daisy Hill Hospital is still open.
good fuck. Daisy Hill is newry hospital. It’s address is Daisy Hill Hospital. Hospital Road. Newry.
99% of the reason behind why this and other disastrous, tragic events keep happening in NI is that both main politician parties and their idiot supporters only care about the green/orange wedge issues like the protocol, language acts, united Ireland etc.
They’ve allowed these parties away with murder for decades, why change the habit of a lifetime? Cretins.
Source: I’m a northern Irish person who isn’t affiliated with either side and wish they’d all just f*** off.
This is going to be a reoccurring story from now on. Then even of you get an ambulance, they can’t get you into a&e who then can’t get you a bed afterwards. But hey, we get a £200 loan to help us put the fore on for ten minutes on Christmas day, before we all go to our 4th jobs.