The tactic is part of an attempt to manage increasing demand for emergency care amid failings in the GP out-of-hours system.
Another plan uncovered would see thousands of 999 calls currently classed as urgent downgraded so that callers receive telephone advice instead of an ambulance response.'
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Typical BAD decision-making and incompetence as per usual. Hundreds of sensible Graduates who will sit down and come up with some stratagic decisions are out of work, in the meantime, people with inflated incomes sitting down and making ridiculous decisions.
ReplyDeleteA relative was ill, I tried talking him out of going to the hospital, in the end he told me to call an ambulance, which I did. The paramedics (who usually do a great job by the way), arrived and did some tests, they then concluded that he was fine and should stay at home. His temperature was unusaully high, so they called in to their tem leader or whoever they call, they were asked to bring the patient in.
To cut a long story short, it turns out the patient had pneumonia, so goodness knows what would have happened if he hadn't had been taken to the hospital.
When we got to the hospital we waited for hours in a side room isolated from all the other patients. The Doctors and Nurses then came in much later with long gloves and face masks (reminded me of scenes from the film The Cassandra crossing), I asked them what was going on, they said the patient had a possible outbreak of swine flu, turns out he had pneumonia.