Ambulance service says sorry for refusing to help hurt teenage biker

That's disgracefull. They have a duty of care to provide help to anyone who needs it.

tbh, if i'm in uniform and if I come across something like that my first instinct would be to help. Absolutley disgusting.
 
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Cyanide said:
They can and will charge you if you call out an ambulance when it's not needed. And it's not cheap.
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The service doesn't do the charging..

Although it is a good idea, I have lost count the ammount of times i've sent amb's to 999 calls that really, really don't need them
 
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I find it interesting that all the finger pointing seems to be at the ambulance service, and NOT the muppets who failed miserably to correctly organise their event.
Did I miss something?
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
I find it interesting that all the finger pointing seems to be at the ambulance service, and NOT the muppets who failed miserably to correctly organise their event.
Did I miss something?
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Thats because its a given that their medical provisions were inadequate - its pretty clear from the fact that they couldn't get him to hospital themselves without putting everyone else at the event at risk. The problem is that the ambulance service should have gone there anyway, then kicked up a fuss afterwards, not while there was someone with serious injuries in need of help.
 
Private ambulances are there to provide cover at the track. If there is an incident then a NHS ambulance is called to come and take the patient away to the nearest hospital. This is to ensure that the meeting goes continues as it cannot without medical cover.
 
i know someone who got there stomach pumped and was took in an ambulance and was charged for it and rightly so
 
to be honest, its "right" though... its a dangerous sporting event, it should have had an ambulance there already, why should a public service "waste" money going to an event where someone has knowingly put themselves at risk?


HOWEVER, i cant believe they would leave a injured person like that. GET the person, then charge the course for the costs involved.
 
Randell Floyd said:
No GMAS ( well NWAS but won't get into that! )

Lucky here most of control are actually OK, just a couple of numpties :p
Sure you can say the same back to us :p
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Most of us are okay, I sit on our Shropshire position taking 9s so no doubt you've gone to a job or two if you work near the border.. going over dispatch soon hopefully though lol
 
The private event will still have a limited amount of medical resources regardless. They don't have £95 billion of taxpayer funding now do they? Wasn't that the point of the NHS, to provide universal healthcare?
 
That's crazy, i noticed this in there too.

Shift manager: "Excuse me, do you want me to leave a person with chest pain who is paying the NHS to get ambulance provision?"

Don't we all pay the NHS?, surely therefore this guy was too?
 
Overlag said:
to be honest, its "right" though... its a dangerous sporting event, it should have had an ambulance there already, why should a public service "waste" money going to an event where someone has knowingly put themselves at risk?


HOWEVER, i cant believe they would leave a injured person like that. GET the person, then charge the course for the costs involved.
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Surely driving a car, smoking, eating unhealthily and walking down the street is putting yourself at risk??

Where do we draw the line?
 
to be honest you can easily break a leg walking down some stairs as easily as you could riding a motor bike, you should get an ambulance (in a case like this) no matter what the safety provisions of the track are.

but on another note, i would still prefer adequate private medical servers for events like this rather than public ambulances sat there. so the track should have atleast one ambulance.

shift manager is still a **** though.
 
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