Today's Daily Post makes very uncomfortable reading.
"Between February and June last year, police in North Wales handled 11 incidents on behalf of the Welsh Ambulance Service transporting patients to hospitals in five cases.
Emergencies dealt with on behalf of the ambulance service in North Wales included an overdose case in which an ambulance arrived after 56 minutes, a self-harm case in which police took the casualty to hospital and a head and elbow injury which resulted in police taking the casualty to hospital.
An ambulance arrived at this latter scene where a person had been kicked in the head after an hour and 10 minutes."
Just how bad can things get before urgent action is taken?
As it already is ambulances can have to wait at the door to A+E for hours before the patient is accepted into the hospital and now we learn that the police, already thin on the ground themselves, are having to transport patients to hospital.
Are we now witnessing the break down of some of our emergency services due to lack of cash being spent wisely?
It certainly looks that way and it's not being at all helped by the ARSEmbly and the 2nd rate politicians of each party playing name calling games between themselves is it?
4 comments:
Wales NHS is no difference than any other public sector in Wales
Firstly they have a higher staff ratio per head population.
and Secondly the public sector will protect jobs before services.
The combined effect is that higher staffing ratio means less funding for services . the protecting of jobs over services in times of cuts resulting in even less money for services .
Absolute crazy ... in the so called cuts WalesNHS presently employ staff dedicated to provide a specific illness or condition ,But in Wales NHS have withdrawn those services yet still employ the staff
Spot on Oscar.
It's not a lack of money, its a case of political pissing about and appalling mis-management.
Do you remember when Mr Cameron became Tory party leader? He said that the noisy, argumentative way of things in the House of Commons was archaic and non-productive.
He would bring an end to 'Punch and Judy politics.
But now, some years later, he is Prime Minister and fully embroiled in that ludicrous behaviour.
Every time I see a TV news article from The Commons it makes me sick.
The Govt, and the Welsh Assembly need to worry about the fact that they pay massive salaries to THOUSANDS of managers who are incapable of doing what they are paid to do.
In the meantime, perhaps the old Colwyn Bay voluntary Ambulance Corps needs to be resurrected?
Mind you most probably elf 'n safety would ban 'em
Bed blocking,ambulances parked outside A&E and social services and NHS wrangling over CHC (continued health care) funding.
All this would come to an end if NHS, Welsh ambulance trust and all council social services were amalgamated into one.
Currently it's a case of three services fighting over funding and peformance figures.
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