What, more TikTok dancing videos during work hours?
Personally I think a merger of Ambulance & Fire service should be seriously considered in most counties.
One control room.
One HR Department.
Massive savings on overheads there alone.
Fire crews could be trained up to medical technician level and respond to 999 medical emergency calls until Ambo arrives on scene to transport patients.
Before anyone gets overly critical this happened in both Hong Kong and New York, it’s a system that works really well.
Well, things will definitely get worse. What indications are there that they’ll get better?
> About 4,000, of whom about 3,000 are ambulance drivers and paramedics, and 10 to 12pc are off sick on any given day.
> ####How does that compare historically?
> It’s elevated, so the norm a couple of years ago is about seven per cent. So it’s five per cent higher.
> ####No it’s five percentage points higher, it’s about 80% higher.
Joel’s paying attention.
Didn’t Mrs May say this before? Is it a common rhetoric?
Part of the problem is with a poor care service preventing patients who are fit enough to be discharged to their own homes. Hospitals will not release patients who cannot completely care for themselves at home if there is no one to help them with getting dressed or feed themselves, even if they no longer require hospital treatment. This means new in-patients are stuck waiting for beds that may take hours to materialise, which can be the difference between life and death for some.
I work on the West Coast main line. On Tuesday a man had a violent seizure on the train to euston. He was taken off at my station. An ambulance was called and they were told it would be at least 6hrs to arrive…
One of the dispatchers drove him to the hospitial in his own car. Who knows how long he had to wait at the hoppy. What a fine dystopia this is.
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What, more TikTok dancing videos during work hours?
Personally I think a merger of Ambulance & Fire service should be seriously considered in most counties.
One control room.
One HR Department.
Massive savings on overheads there alone.
Fire crews could be trained up to medical technician level and respond to 999 medical emergency calls until Ambo arrives on scene to transport patients.
Before anyone gets overly critical this happened in both Hong Kong and New York, it’s a system that works really well.
https://www.ems1.com/fdny-ems/articles/fdny-marks-25th-anniversary-of-ems-merger-CxhWquvyjVbIWWiT/
Well, things will definitely get worse. What indications are there that they’ll get better?
> About 4,000, of whom about 3,000 are ambulance drivers and paramedics, and 10 to 12pc are off sick on any given day.
> ####How does that compare historically?
> It’s elevated, so the norm a couple of years ago is about seven per cent. So it’s five per cent higher.
> ####No it’s five percentage points higher, it’s about 80% higher.
Joel’s paying attention.
Didn’t Mrs May say this before? Is it a common rhetoric?
Part of the problem is with a poor care service preventing patients who are fit enough to be discharged to their own homes. Hospitals will not release patients who cannot completely care for themselves at home if there is no one to help them with getting dressed or feed themselves, even if they no longer require hospital treatment. This means new in-patients are stuck waiting for beds that may take hours to materialise, which can be the difference between life and death for some.
I work on the West Coast main line. On Tuesday a man had a violent seizure on the train to euston. He was taken off at my station. An ambulance was called and they were told it would be at least 6hrs to arrive…
One of the dispatchers drove him to the hospitial in his own car. Who knows how long he had to wait at the hoppy. What a fine dystopia this is.