That’s the North West Ambulance Service, which covers 7.5 million people in the UK. I’m in their area, the system has been crumbling for some time. I have doctor friends who for months now have said if you need an ambulance get in the car or grab a taxi if you can, don’t wait for an ambulance to turn up (we live 10 minutes drive from a major children’s hospital).
To be fair with the way they are funded and supported by the Tories, one kid with a saucepan stuck on it’s head is enough to push the the emergency services in the UK over the edge into ‘critical incident’ at the moment.
Simply convert the ambulances to ice cream vans and problem solved.
Water is wet.
Tell me when the NHS *hasn’t* been at critical levels across every service?
This won’t be fixed until social care is fixed. That’s what leads to bed blocking in the hospitals, which clogs up A&E, which leads to ambulances being parked up outside hospitals with patients inside, which leads to it taking over a day to get an ambulance.
Don’t get ill. Don’t injure yourself. The NHS can’t help you.
Also, for fuck’s sake, don’t vote Tory.
I work in the Control Room of another Ambulance Service. Last night we were advising Category 2 Calls, people having strokes, heart attacks, breathing problems ect, that we had delays of 5 hours.
If you can make your own way to hospital, you absolutely need to be doing that. Don’t phone for an ambulance because you want treatment at home and don’t want to go into hospital, that’s not what we’re here for. Don’t phone an ambulance because you think you’ll be seen quicker at hospital, you won’t, you’ll still just sit in AE for several hours and the crew will just sit with you there.
Also please don’t phone for an ambulance because ‘you couldn’t get through to 111’, if you tried phoning 111 first, you KNOW it’s not an emergency call.
Remember a lot of this is likely also due to Covid. I’ve kind of tuned out now (selfishly I admit) but still follow people like the brilliant “Corona-centrist” (in that he just gives out the stats and doesn’t editorialise) Prof Oliver Johnson on Twitter.
It largely being brushed under the carpet media-wise because of the shit show with the current government, but hospital admissions for Covid are still climbing and it isn’t a pretty picture.
If people are being foolish enough to let themselves get heatstroke during the middle of an intense heatwave in the first place, maybe we ought to just leave it to natural selection to sort them out…
I had to run over to the shop earlier today in the middle of the day in the searing heat to pick up a couple of urgent groceries, and I saw an old lady wearing a few layers of clothing (coat, headscarf, sweater and dress). I also saw a young gentleman wearing a thick parka coat and jeans and a beanie hat.
If they suffered heatstroke as a result of their poor choice of clothing, they’d have no one else to blame but themselves for it.
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That’s the North West Ambulance Service, which covers 7.5 million people in the UK. I’m in their area, the system has been crumbling for some time. I have doctor friends who for months now have said if you need an ambulance get in the car or grab a taxi if you can, don’t wait for an ambulance to turn up (we live 10 minutes drive from a major children’s hospital).
To be fair with the way they are funded and supported by the Tories, one kid with a saucepan stuck on it’s head is enough to push the the emergency services in the UK over the edge into ‘critical incident’ at the moment.
Simply convert the ambulances to ice cream vans and problem solved.
Water is wet.
Tell me when the NHS *hasn’t* been at critical levels across every service?
This won’t be fixed until social care is fixed. That’s what leads to bed blocking in the hospitals, which clogs up A&E, which leads to ambulances being parked up outside hospitals with patients inside, which leads to it taking over a day to get an ambulance.
Don’t get ill. Don’t injure yourself. The NHS can’t help you.
Also, for fuck’s sake, don’t vote Tory.
I work in the Control Room of another Ambulance Service. Last night we were advising Category 2 Calls, people having strokes, heart attacks, breathing problems ect, that we had delays of 5 hours.
If you can make your own way to hospital, you absolutely need to be doing that. Don’t phone for an ambulance because you want treatment at home and don’t want to go into hospital, that’s not what we’re here for. Don’t phone an ambulance because you think you’ll be seen quicker at hospital, you won’t, you’ll still just sit in AE for several hours and the crew will just sit with you there.
Also please don’t phone for an ambulance because ‘you couldn’t get through to 111’, if you tried phoning 111 first, you KNOW it’s not an emergency call.
Remember a lot of this is likely also due to Covid. I’ve kind of tuned out now (selfishly I admit) but still follow people like the brilliant “Corona-centrist” (in that he just gives out the stats and doesn’t editorialise) Prof Oliver Johnson on Twitter.
It largely being brushed under the carpet media-wise because of the shit show with the current government, but hospital admissions for Covid are still climbing and it isn’t a pretty picture.
If people are being foolish enough to let themselves get heatstroke during the middle of an intense heatwave in the first place, maybe we ought to just leave it to natural selection to sort them out…
I had to run over to the shop earlier today in the middle of the day in the searing heat to pick up a couple of urgent groceries, and I saw an old lady wearing a few layers of clothing (coat, headscarf, sweater and dress). I also saw a young gentleman wearing a thick parka coat and jeans and a beanie hat.
If they suffered heatstroke as a result of their poor choice of clothing, they’d have no one else to blame but themselves for it.
Headline. Summer weather is hot! Imagine that?
Rotten to its core.