Im not judging the system but the authors opinion is amazingly subjective.
As an A&E nurse most children a having that way are being bullied not carrying around grapefruit sized masses. We can’t afford to send ambulances to all of them. I live in a similarly rural location. With a child. My first instinct wouldn’t be to call an ambulance. It would be to get to a&e. If my husband was only “several miles” away. I’d have been contacting him before 999 to come and get us and take us to hospital.
I might sound cruel and cold here. But this is an extremely dramatic story.
>The call handler was cutting out the middle man of a trained paramedic by asking me to carry out certain checks
In my experience, if you call 111 and get to speak to a trained paramedic, they usually just end up just writing down a list of symptoms then saying “go to A&E” anyway. Not sure if 999 would be different but not sure if a paramedic would have handled this much differently.
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Im not judging the system but the authors opinion is amazingly subjective.
As an A&E nurse most children a having that way are being bullied not carrying around grapefruit sized masses. We can’t afford to send ambulances to all of them. I live in a similarly rural location. With a child. My first instinct wouldn’t be to call an ambulance. It would be to get to a&e. If my husband was only “several miles” away. I’d have been contacting him before 999 to come and get us and take us to hospital.
I might sound cruel and cold here. But this is an extremely dramatic story.
>The call handler was cutting out the middle man of a trained paramedic by asking me to carry out certain checks
In my experience, if you call 111 and get to speak to a trained paramedic, they usually just end up just writing down a list of symptoms then saying “go to A&E” anyway. Not sure if 999 would be different but not sure if a paramedic would have handled this much differently.
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