Rural services our way are just about zero. The local TV 2 days ago said they were removing 2/3rds of Avon and Somerset rural crime investigation police officers ( all 6 of them..) to other dutys until at least November due to a lack of officers for other areas. Four weeks ago our neighbours called the police to report a possible entry to a property in our Hamlet, the police call centre said they were too busy and transferred them to another Somerset call centre, with same issue, who then transferred them to a Midlands call centre!!. They responded with what can we do, suggest you send Avon and Somerset an email and they then gave our neighbour the email address.. No one responded in the end..
Same neighbour a week later fell over just around 2200 hrs, landed badly on a stone floor. They called me as I had trauma training, looked like a broken pelvis, so called 999 and made patient as comfortable as possible. The response was maybe a 7 hr wait as no ambulances available in our area. 2 hrs later called 999 again, still no ambulances and informed actually none free in the West country as they were all at hospitals trying to discharge their patients to the hospitals.. So 5 hrs after initial call the ambulance rocks up.. not happy....
Rant over...
