I have been watching lots of twitter accounts and forums recently an have seen way to many complaints about the Ambulance Service. This particular article is what made me write this post – Family’s concern over 999 response to call the report states that not only the person that fell was not injured but also the fact that he did actually get an ambulance. By definition the Ambulance Service attends EMERGENCY LIFE THREATENING CALLS. I am sorry that this person fell and was on the floor for a while, however I am sure that if there was a resource that was not responding to an Emergency Call an Ambulance would have been sent quicker.
The Ambulance Service Triages its calls and sends resources to the highest priority calls first, surely this is a good system!
After all we can imagine the News Headlines if an Ambulance was sent to this gentleman when a child that was in Cardiac Arrest dies around the corner because we were picking up someone off of the floor that wasn’t even injured!
