Provided that it was safe to do so, who wouldn’t drive their spouse to A&E?
Nothing new there then. If you haven’t got transport then you’re stuck
I wonder if she would have driven him to the hospital?
I hope she’s doing alright.
Good job he had a car innit? Quite handy she wasn’t on the 9th floor of a council tower block as well.
If it was the difference between life and death then she would be stupid not to. The sooner a stroke patient receives treatment, the better their rate of recovery, where even minutes can make a difference. She should not have had to do it but she would may have regretted not doing so for the rest of her life if things had gone downhill.
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>In the South West, where Ms Lee works, the average response time for a category two call, which includes strokes, is one hour 53 minutes – the longest in England, when the target is 18 minutes.
I live in the SW and waited 4 1/2 hours after(during?) a heart attack for an ambulance last November.
Granted it was in the middle of the NHS Covid meltdown but that’s more of an excuse as to why I had to wait over 5 days to get to a cardiac ward after an emergency admission (which I’m fine about and wasn’t concerned about being stuck in a disused office on a gurney as at least I was *in* a hospital and receiving treatment).
As she alludes, the government has got the power to change this situation – but very obviously has chosen not to.
This is not surprising. My brother works dispatch for the ambulance service, so he knows just how bad this is. He broke his leg the other day and didn’t even bother calling an ambulance, just got a taxi. He was in A&E for about 30 hours before they could discharge him. No sleep. It’s everything Nye Bevan would have hoped for.
This is what tax evasion and a tpry government in tandem achieve
How dare he not consider the political implications. /s
Lol bunch of heartless bastards.
Seems a reasonable thing to do.
Of course, when you get there try getting past the receptionist.. I drove my wife with classic stroke symptoms to A&E and was met by a sneering receptionist who suggested i should have waited until Monday and gone to the GP.
Luckily it wasn’t stroke – apparently stress can look a lot like it – right down to whole drooping face and slurred speech.. but how many people weren’t so lucky?
OK…. So husband allowed someone else to get an ambulance quicker by saving a finite resource. And this is a… Bad thing?
Still, I really admire the NHS for treating everyone the same, if the services are shitty, they will be equally shitty.
The NHS is falling apart.
Some of the stories on this thread are horrendous.
To think growing up, dialling 999 you’d get an ambulance within 15 minutes or so. Granted this was the late 80’s, but we have fallen so far.
A lot of the problems that cause ambulances to be called out more frequently are down to cuts to funding in care and cuts to NHS Direct.Cuts to care is obvious, but cuts to NHS Direct is because NHS 111 is not staffed by nurses, so the people at the other end don’t know as much so send an ambulance more often just to cover their asses.
Everything has a knock on effect, there’s 650 MPs and a shit load more Lords you think they would have been able to foresee this sort of thing.
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Provided that it was safe to do so, who wouldn’t drive their spouse to A&E?
Nothing new there then. If you haven’t got transport then you’re stuck
I wonder if she would have driven him to the hospital?
I hope she’s doing alright.
Good job he had a car innit? Quite handy she wasn’t on the 9th floor of a council tower block as well.
If it was the difference between life and death then she would be stupid not to. The sooner a stroke patient receives treatment, the better their rate of recovery, where even minutes can make a difference. She should not have had to do it but she would may have regretted not doing so for the rest of her life if things had gone downhill.
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>In the South West, where Ms Lee works, the average response time for a category two call, which includes strokes, is one hour 53 minutes – the longest in England, when the target is 18 minutes.
I live in the SW and waited 4 1/2 hours after(during?) a heart attack for an ambulance last November.
Granted it was in the middle of the NHS Covid meltdown but that’s more of an excuse as to why I had to wait over 5 days to get to a cardiac ward after an emergency admission (which I’m fine about and wasn’t concerned about being stuck in a disused office on a gurney as at least I was *in* a hospital and receiving treatment).
As she alludes, the government has got the power to change this situation – but very obviously has chosen not to.
This is not surprising. My brother works dispatch for the ambulance service, so he knows just how bad this is. He broke his leg the other day and didn’t even bother calling an ambulance, just got a taxi. He was in A&E for about 30 hours before they could discharge him. No sleep. It’s everything Nye Bevan would have hoped for.
This is what tax evasion and a tpry government in tandem achieve
How dare he not consider the political implications. /s
Lol bunch of heartless bastards.
Seems a reasonable thing to do.
Of course, when you get there try getting past the receptionist.. I drove my wife with classic stroke symptoms to A&E and was met by a sneering receptionist who suggested i should have waited until Monday and gone to the GP.
Luckily it wasn’t stroke – apparently stress can look a lot like it – right down to whole drooping face and slurred speech.. but how many people weren’t so lucky?
OK…. So husband allowed someone else to get an ambulance quicker by saving a finite resource. And this is a… Bad thing?
Still, I really admire the NHS for treating everyone the same, if the services are shitty, they will be equally shitty.
The NHS is falling apart.
Some of the stories on this thread are horrendous.
To think growing up, dialling 999 you’d get an ambulance within 15 minutes or so. Granted this was the late 80’s, but we have fallen so far.
A lot of the problems that cause ambulances to be called out more frequently are down to cuts to funding in care and cuts to NHS Direct.Cuts to care is obvious, but cuts to NHS Direct is because NHS 111 is not staffed by nurses, so the people at the other end don’t know as much so send an ambulance more often just to cover their asses.
Everything has a knock on effect, there’s 650 MPs and a shit load more Lords you think they would have been able to foresee this sort of thing.