The explaination I heard regarding there being no ambulances was that they're all sat with their patients outside A&E for hours because that doesn't start the clock for the time taken to process someone through A&E .... once they cross the threshold they start to count towards the Hospital's target of performance ... so basically some manager somewhere is happy for your granny to lay on the floor for 8 hours (or maybe die) to massage their performance figures.
K
Ps ... A&E departments can only do so much, but the current system leaves casualties lying about un-assessed and in pain ... at least if they were in the system they could be triaged and the drunks and cut-fingers held back.
The other issue is that if someone is brought in by the Police they're jumped up the queue in order to get the officers back out there (especially Saturday nights )... so the drunks, overdoses and scrappers (all in some way self-inflicted) will constantly bump your granny down the list.
Last edited by Image; 19/07/24 01:29 PM.
