Yes I just said I saw a girl lying in the road with two people near her, I didn't know if she was injured or having a tantrum. Guess which one he said
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Meanwhile these days the parents of 5 year old in cardiac arrest get told there's no one available 
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When my wife needed moving between two hospitals for emergency surgery the consultant drove to where she was in his own car as it was quicker than getting an ambulance. Had she waited for the ambulance my kids would have no mum. The crisis in the ambulance service is ver vey real people die and suffer worse outcomes everyday because they can’t get to the hospital quickly enough.
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Yeah, some of the horror stories I've heard over the last few years... If my other half or kids needed seeing in an emergency I'd probably be getting them in the car and taking them myself (luckily we're only 20 mins from the hospital, 10 if you don't care about speed limits and bus lanes!)
Make sure everyone in your family know where the nearest defibrillators are, and ideally get first aid trained (we're currently teaching our scout group CPR
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I got an Uber when I had kidney stones and the driver said half his fares to the hospital were patients that should be in ambulances!Yeah, some of the horror stories I've heard over the last few years... If my other half or kids needed seeing in an emergency I'd probably be getting them in the car and taking them myself (luckily we're only 20 mins from the hospital, 10 if you don't care about speed limits and bus lanes!)
Make sure everyone in your family know where the nearest defibrillators are, and ideally get first aid trained (we're currently teaching our scout group CPR
You'd be better off calling a taxi...
My Apendix popped 2 years ago... I'd be dead if my mate didn't drive me to A&E, after 2hrs of waiting for an ambulance.
That's no offence to paramedics/emergency staff, there's just not enough of them, and you have people calling ambulances for silly reasons.
My Apendix popped 2 years ago... I'd be dead if my mate didn't drive me to A&E, after 2hrs of waiting for an ambulance.
That's no offence to paramedics/emergency staff, there's just not enough of them, and you have people calling ambulances for silly reasons.
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That's why they say life sucks
Just said this to my son and he said that they don't just burst so had you had problems before hand( not giving medical advice here, he's an ambulance technician)?
Yeah definitely. There's a lot of issues with the whole process you can see from just watching shows like ambulance.
Firstly I think it's crazy that ambulance staff have to sometimes wait many hours to hand over a patient - this should literally be instant so that paramedics can get straight back out onto the next job.
Secondly, you see a lot of paramedics called out to elderly patients who either feel unwell (live on their own with no-one else to call), or may have had a fall. There needs to be some sort of service that can visit these typically non-emergency type incidents to help in whatever way is necessary, and only call in paramedics if this 'first aider' determines that the elderly patient actually might require emergency medical assistance.
Firstly with handing over patients, the accepting doctor needs a rundown on all relevant facts which my son says should be about 15mins but the problem is where do you put them. When there are 5 patients going in and only 1 bed available and no staff to look after them they have to wait.
Secondly the elderly patients are another level of problem, my son says the two most difficult problems are falls and the elderly. Now put them together and you have a serious problem. No easy fix I'm afraid
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Oh yeah fully agree there's no easy fix. I guess the point is that hiring more paramedics isn't going to suddenly make a big difference. They will still face the timed constraint factors that currently exist.
Patient discharge has always been a bit of an issue. Especially amongst those who either live on their own or have no close friends etc. if you've been in to hospital you're typically going to need some assistance when you leave, and there's just very little of that around it seems.
Yes when my son was working as a HCA he would say people who were medically fit enough to be discharged were still in the hospital because the care or help that they required wasn't available so they had to stay in until it was put in place. With somethings it could take days or even weeks
the delays one sees with A+E and the ambulance service is just a symptom of a system-wide breakdown.
said it before and will say it again
said it before and will say it again
I would have to say, the traffic jam starts when a giant abnormal load is using the road with cars constantly changing lanes
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This idea of cutting safety nets to pay for tax cuts it’s a recipe for disaster. Affordable housing, living wage, affordable childcare etc etc.
Sunak looks to get people off welfare into work to fund future tax cuts
The Prime Minister said a system which signed off three times as many people as a decade ago was not working properly.uk.yahoo.com
Welfare cut to fun tax cuts.
Work doesn’t pay for a large part of society because once you factor in basic living you end up a few quid better off than being on benefits.
That single mother at no fault of her own now has to look after a baby so cannot have a job. The local nurseries are all either booked out, closing because Government subsidises do not cover their cost and so do ‘top-up’ fees to make it work as a business. The single mother can’t find a local job because there are no council or affordable houses so the nearest job is 70 minutes away via a bus that only comes twice an hour because the bus company cut routes. So she needs to leave early and get back late, meaning more nursery cost that the Gov won’t cover. When all is said and done, when bus ticket, lunch, child costs, heating a poor quality house etc etc she’s £12.50 better off a month. Why bother? Why not spend that time bringing up your child instead of a stranger?
There is no magic bullet to getting people back to work aside from forcing them by making them completely destitute to the point of complete desperation you only see in 3rd world countries. The ones that WANT to work need the Gov to sort out all these side issues, THEN they’ll naturally move into work again.
That always the problem with the Tories, they see everything as disconnected. It’s lazy and incompetent.
I agree, my sister had to go to work more or less full time while our mum looked after my sisters kids (1985ish). After paying out everything she was only £5 a week better off. However that money was helping the family to keep going.
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The things you describe in your post are broadly unfixable, by any party.
Not really funny though is it, you'll be old one day.Euthanise the elderly, simple