Tom Reynolds
‘score’ that would show improvement, but could also be broken down to show where further improvement could be made. For example, the number of people who get diagnosed and treated at a specialist centre for a stroke could be worth ten times as much as the number of people who get painkillers for their broken arm. We could even keep the ORCON target, but give it a more reasonable weighting of importance. This system would have the advantage of being better based on current evidence and would highlight areas where changes can have an immediate effect on patient care and outcome. There is a reason why I get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I diagnose and take to a specialist centre someone having a heart attack. It’s because I’ve done something that will have an effect on patient wellbeing. It’s a feeling that I don’t get when I reach somewhere in under eight minutes or meet an FRU who has been on scene for 40 minutes. Right, how do I get to be Minister in Charge of Sensible Ideas for Ambulances?
How to Fix the Ambulance Service (Part Two) More ambulances, more ambulance staff and to stop trying to run the service like a business and run it more like a charity. The government to decide if they want to fund the service properly in order to give the public what they expect of an ambulance service, or to work on lowering the public’s expectations to something more fitting the current budget sheet. More money in general, really.
Hidden Abuse? We were looking for the last job of the day, something simple that would leave us close to our home base. The job which came down our vehicle’s terminal wasn’t ideal, but it wasn’t awful either. 244