Disgusting but those poor folks have zero chance. Most of their shift is stuck in ambulance queues as they can’t pass off their patients at hospitals.
I saw this before it got this bad a few years ago. I was called by a neighbour to say my late dad had collapsed at home and an ambulance was called. I drove from Birmingham to Boston…and he still wasn’t there as an ambulance had to come from kings lynn. I also fell and broke my ankle in Edinburgh and had to wait 7 hours for an ambulance.
It’s my biggest fear that this will happen to me when I’m old. Knowing you could be ok but left in pain slowly fading away.
Meanwhile the priority is tax cuts for the highest paid, and cuts to nhs spending.
It does make you think.
Don’t worry, when the bankers bonuses trickle down, things will be fine.
Were they waiting 9 hours for the money to trickle down?
How many ambulances are their in England? Like not exactly but is it like 500? 1000? 10,000? 1 million?
To quote Jose mourinho: “if I speak I am in big trouble”.
If they try to america the NHS I hope the UK will fucking riot
How wrong I am to consider this country home..
Absolute joke. Driving me crazy each day that passes with this government man.. fucking with us all sideways with a brush
All I hear from people I know who need to go to hospital is ambulances are stuck outside with patients because there’s no free beds in the wards. That and ambulances getting sent to the wrong location. In one case the Fire and Rescue service answered a call because they would get there faster. Just remember all of this when it comes to the next GE and local elections.
I wonder if they’ll vote Tory at the next election
This is the same with all of our public services. Next time you complain about the police “not coming out” just remember that they’re in exactly the same situation as this. Understaffed, underpaid. And if they can’t get to your call it’s not because they don’t want to. It’s because they can’t. They’re already *out*.
Really sad but I bet they all voted conservative at the last election…
Tories intention to run it in to the ground so they can justify selling it to their rich mates
We’re paying the price for generations of underinvestment, in the health service itself as well as education, industry and infrastructure (which pay for healthcare)
At every turn, whenever we were offered the choice between investing in the future and paying less tax, we chose less tax
We go on holiday and complain how expensive everything is in other countries then marvel at how everything works, there, never making the connection between those things (or realising that locals are paid well enough to make those prices reasonable)
These problems will not be fixed easily, quickly or cheaply
Since the health care is free, Immigrants love to abuse it unfortunately.
This happened to a family friend of mine this weekend but in London. She fell on her hotel room and the ambulance took 9 hours to come. I guess silver lining she was indoors at least but the pain was dreadful and took two doses of morphine to be able to move her.
I’m in Australia, it’s quite bad here. An epileptic, I live in trepidation. Should I have a seizure, I could be down and out, unconscious for 12 hours or more. It’s important to get help. Last time I was in hospital for a week.
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Disgusting but those poor folks have zero chance. Most of their shift is stuck in ambulance queues as they can’t pass off their patients at hospitals.
I saw this before it got this bad a few years ago. I was called by a neighbour to say my late dad had collapsed at home and an ambulance was called. I drove from Birmingham to Boston…and he still wasn’t there as an ambulance had to come from kings lynn. I also fell and broke my ankle in Edinburgh and had to wait 7 hours for an ambulance.
It’s my biggest fear that this will happen to me when I’m old. Knowing you could be ok but left in pain slowly fading away.
Meanwhile the priority is tax cuts for the highest paid, and cuts to nhs spending.
It does make you think.
Don’t worry, when the bankers bonuses trickle down, things will be fine.
Were they waiting 9 hours for the money to trickle down?
How many ambulances are their in England? Like not exactly but is it like 500? 1000? 10,000? 1 million?
To quote Jose mourinho: “if I speak I am in big trouble”.
If they try to america the NHS I hope the UK will fucking riot
How wrong I am to consider this country home..
Absolute joke. Driving me crazy each day that passes with this government man.. fucking with us all sideways with a brush
All I hear from people I know who need to go to hospital is ambulances are stuck outside with patients because there’s no free beds in the wards. That and ambulances getting sent to the wrong location. In one case the Fire and Rescue service answered a call because they would get there faster. Just remember all of this when it comes to the next GE and local elections.
I wonder if they’ll vote Tory at the next election
This is the same with all of our public services. Next time you complain about the police “not coming out” just remember that they’re in exactly the same situation as this. Understaffed, underpaid. And if they can’t get to your call it’s not because they don’t want to. It’s because they can’t. They’re already *out*.
Really sad but I bet they all voted conservative at the last election…
Tories intention to run it in to the ground so they can justify selling it to their rich mates
We’re paying the price for generations of underinvestment, in the health service itself as well as education, industry and infrastructure (which pay for healthcare)
At every turn, whenever we were offered the choice between investing in the future and paying less tax, we chose less tax
We go on holiday and complain how expensive everything is in other countries then marvel at how everything works, there, never making the connection between those things (or realising that locals are paid well enough to make those prices reasonable)
These problems will not be fixed easily, quickly or cheaply
Since the health care is free, Immigrants love to abuse it unfortunately.
This happened to a family friend of mine this weekend but in London. She fell on her hotel room and the ambulance took 9 hours to come. I guess silver lining she was indoors at least but the pain was dreadful and took two doses of morphine to be able to move her.
I’m in Australia, it’s quite bad here. An epileptic, I live in trepidation. Should I have a seizure, I could be down and out, unconscious for 12 hours or more. It’s important to get help. Last time I was in hospital for a week.