WTF?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2225681/Motorcyclist-injured-crash-taken-hospital-brother-ambulances-diverted-NINE-times.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
(sorry if it’s a repost)
mate of mine has a wife who is a paramedic.
yesterday the 111 non-emergency service called them out because a woman was complaining of back pain. she’d had a baby the day before.
Unbelievable, time wasters hogging our limited emergency services!
Why didn’t the paramedic take him to hospital?
Just guessing monkimark, and I’m sure Nonsense (Anita) can elaborate further, but the paramedic was probably in a car or on a motorcycle without a stretcher or spinal board, which depending on the guy’s injuries he probably ought to have been transported on.
Yep, lone first responders are very common these days - bikes and vehicles. Their job is to arrive, assess and possibly stabalise a patient while an Ambulance is en route. They cannot transport patients.
I (as well as my normal !!! day job) help out on the 999 phones now as well on the odd occasion … had a classic last week. 999 call and bloke wants me to phone his sister to let her know he’s moving out of his address and when asked what the emergency was he said he had no credit on his phone. Almost speechless.
You can see the paramedics car in the background of the photo, since he had to be picked up by his brother (presumably in a car, without any spinal boards or medical equipment) I don’t see what the difference is. At least it would have saved the poor guy from having to sit on the road for 90 minutes - especially if the paramedic was concerned about internal bleeding.
Maybe the paramedic is banned from transporting patients but someone higher up should have had the brains to realise a vehicle was sitting there doing nothing when it could have dropped him off at a hospital and been back out on the road attending to other incidents.
Monkimark, about a year ago there was a big t-boning outside my office at the crossroads. The worst injured party was in a Volvo S60 - a chuffing big car. Despite the sleet and near freezing temperatures, the ambulance and fire brigade had to leave her in there until they’d turned the Volvo into a convertible and could spinal board her out. Unless there was a danger of fire or explosion, or choking to death, the guy should have been left in his car with seatbelt on in his chair. The last thing you would want to do is move someone and put them in a wheelchair for the rest of their life.
The real issue here is the timing of the ambulance, which was disgraceful.
same **** different day i have experienced this with my work on a daily basis.
should mean a £20 fine. directly billed to their phone bill.
Maybe the paramedic is banned from transporting patients but someone higher up should have had the brains to realise a vehicle was sitting there doing nothing when it could have dropped him off at a hospital and been back out on the road attending to other incidents.
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I was dropped off to Watford general by a lovely paramedic, (had sliced both my thumbs on a ceramic tile)… She was a gem in doing so, but guess it wasn’t the norm.