You couldn’t make it up, could you. Here we go again with another new variant of the virus. Now called the Delta variant, first identified in India. And with it the hold ups that this new strain could (probably will) bring to our freedom.
Personally, I’m perfectly happy with the rules as they are, because at least we can be fairly normal. But of course, off goes the virus again, clapping its little hands – that’s if it has hands – but you know what I mean!
So now there’s an even madder rush to get everyone vaccinated – a bit like closing the stable door once the horse has bolted, don’t you think. Meanwhile, the virus rushes round as fast as it can, infecting anyone standing in its way. Just when daylight seemed to appear at the end of the tunnel to freedom – a train comes tearing down it.
Our business has suffered a great deal, as have other peoples’. With no help from any grants, councils or the rest, we’ve had to draw on savings just like so many other people. But we’re managing, in spite of no help. Anyway, moaning over and onto the next topic.
999 from 40 Minutes Away
Carrying on with the ‘you couldn’t make it up’ theme, have you seen the news about 999 calls? North West Ambulance Service is changing to, in my opinion, a daft and very odd way of doing things.
The ambulance services are to be called out to emergencies across the region – some of which will be up to 40 miles away! Of course the unions are saying that patients and staff are being failed with the new system, and I tend to agree.
Any ambulance within 40 minutes can be assigned for category two calls. It’s classed as an emergency if it’s a potentially serious problem that needs a rapid assessment, urgent on the scene intervention or transport.
Meanwhile someone could be on the brink of death etc. The ambulance men are at their wits end. Which is no surprise, when they can be asked to go 30 miles to an emergency only to be diverted back to a call in the original area they set off from. Barmy isn’t it, like I said, you couldn’t make it up. As a result, less patients can be attended to, due to travelling all over the county.
You couldn’t make it up…
As someone said, there’s no control over the safety of staff. Travelling around like that is only going to fail the public and the staff.
Unison, their union, is reacting to members worries. Drivers are spending most of their working shift attending calls 40 miles away just to be sent back. Often passing addresses that are waiting for an ambulance, resulting in them not being able to see patients whose house they are passing.
You couldn’t make it up could you. What’s betting this has been decided by the powers that be who aren’t on the front line to see all the problems their staff face. I just wonder how these people pass rules without seeming to realise the knock on effect it has to staff and patients. It’s so obvious to anyone that it’s a recipe for disaster. It doesn’t take a genius to work out what is so obvious, especially with the covid going on too.
Missing the Golden Hour?
It makes me concerned as a member of the public, because for a long time this has been the case with a lot of patients. Reports of patients with what could be strokes or lots more serious things having to wait ages for an ambulance. If that isn’t risking lives I don’t know what is. We are told about the golden hour for strokes, heart attacks and the rest so what happens if it exceeds this time while you wait for an ambulance? Boom you’ve had it!
We were at a party a few years ago along with an eighty-year plus lady who suddenly collapsed and for the whole world appeared to have had a stroke. Someone rang for an ambulance which took over three quarters of an hour to arrive and take her to hospital. She was kept in hospital for other reasons although luckily it wasn’t a stroke. But it so easily could have been.
A good shake up
The whole way the NHS is organised and run could do with a good shake up, a huge task I know. But along with other public services, we have to ask why, when it’s obviously not fit for purpose don’t managers do something about it.
The NHS and its frontline staff provide a wonderful service which none of us would be without, I’m sure. But making daft rules like this isn’t going to help anyone – staff or patients. What is glaringly obvious should be sorted out before lives are lost.
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