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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: Slacker on September 11, 2012, 09:33:43 PM

Title: If you need the hospital you'd better catch a bus
Post by: Slacker on September 11, 2012, 09:33:43 PM

There are proposals to reduce the number of ambulance stations in Derbyshire from 16 to 2.

Ambulance crews work 12 hour shifts and unlike the fire service who have a lot of stand-by time they are busy most of the shift. These potential changes would add more travel time to very long shifts.

If you live out in the sticks you could have a long wait to get treated.

Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Title: Re: If you need the hospital you'd better catch a bus
Post by: simondjuk on September 11, 2012, 09:48:13 PM

How on Earth can they justify a reduction like that?

Title: Re: If you need the hospital you'd better catch a bus
Post by: Slacker on September 11, 2012, 10:52:19 PM

Economies of scale I guess. Not sure if they expect the crew to stop out as the paramedics do

Title: Re: If you need the hospital you'd better catch a bus
Post by: therealjr on September 11, 2012, 11:01:31 PM

Love the socialist party reaction to this.

"When EMAS lost the contracts for patient transport services, a third of the ambulance service was privatised. This was done under Labour but it was in the spirit of the Con-Dems' vision for as much privatisation as possible and as many cuts as they can get away with"

Title: Re: If you need the hospital you'd better catch a bus
Post by: Slacker on September 11, 2012, 11:04:03 PM

The Socialist party aren't afraid to attack Labour, thought it happened more recently though

Title: Re: If you need the hospital you'd better catch a bus
Post by: Old Cruser on September 12, 2012, 08:51:26 AM

That's disgraceful. Just not going to cope are they!