Fucks sake. It can kill an elderly person to be left on the floor after a fall.
Paramedic here. It’s embarrassing that this is the state of emergency care in the NHS.
The fundamental problem doesn’t even necessarily lie with the ambulance service (although there is certainly room for improvement there). Our A&Es are so overburdened that ambulances get stuck trying to offload patients instead of responding to other emergencies. Our A&Es are also doing the best they can, they can’t move patients further along the care journey because those other services are also at capacity.
We need more hospitals and more care providers. We also need better public education on appropriate use of these emergency care services, because that’s a huge factor too.
Write to your MPs. Demand better funding for our NHS. It’s the only way things will improve.
SNP’s Scotland
Correction
**Man waits ridiculously long for an Ambulance because THE POLITICIANS HAVE SYSTEMATICALLY DISMANTLED THE NHS FOR DECADES**
This seems like those similar stories they go after in Wales. People’s suffering gets clicks.
I had a relative wait a long time also – but then they also waited in the ambulance outside AE for almost another 3 hours
That sounds even more insane to me – to have paramedics waiting in an ambulance with a patient doing nothing much
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Fucks sake. It can kill an elderly person to be left on the floor after a fall.
Paramedic here. It’s embarrassing that this is the state of emergency care in the NHS.
The fundamental problem doesn’t even necessarily lie with the ambulance service (although there is certainly room for improvement there). Our A&Es are so overburdened that ambulances get stuck trying to offload patients instead of responding to other emergencies. Our A&Es are also doing the best they can, they can’t move patients further along the care journey because those other services are also at capacity.
We need more hospitals and more care providers. We also need better public education on appropriate use of these emergency care services, because that’s a huge factor too.
Write to your MPs. Demand better funding for our NHS. It’s the only way things will improve.
SNP’s Scotland
Correction
**Man waits ridiculously long for an Ambulance because THE POLITICIANS HAVE SYSTEMATICALLY DISMANTLED THE NHS FOR DECADES**
This seems like those similar stories they go after in Wales. People’s suffering gets clicks.
I had a relative wait a long time also – but then they also waited in the ambulance outside AE for almost another 3 hours
That sounds even more insane to me – to have paramedics waiting in an ambulance with a patient doing nothing much
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