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(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
Did you know that from today (Saturday) ambulances in some parts of the UK will attend emergencies without any trained paramedics on board to administer first aid and essential life-saving drugs?
The move is – of course – to save money.
And no doubt when enough complaints are received and even some deaths happen as a result of the policy – the government will have more excuses to completely privatise the ambulance service.
Here are more details from the Yorkshire Evening Post:
Non-clinicians to 999 calls plan sparks row
Don’t know about you, but I would have thought this would be important news.
So why is it not deemed important enough for the front pages in the mainstream press?
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Thank you for that link, I have also received today a copy of a circular that says the same thing here in Gloucestershire and Ambulance crews are fuming.
We know this is happening all over the country for the same reasons.
This government doing what Thatcher did in the Eighties as a way of forcing people into private care, they run the service to a standstill hoping people will jump into privateers hands.
Or are then able to privatise the service as people blame the NHS for all the under-funding and re-organisation.
We must all fight to take back what is being stolen from us by corrupt politicians.
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Thanks to this stupid government, now people will die, it’ll be blamed on the NHS, then the NHS will be privatised and it’ll cost £££££ to use and drive all but the richest people bankrupt if they get ill.
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until thy wake up to the fact this lot have lied dreadfully over the nhs being safe in their hands is now one big joke and the sell off of the nhs to the yanks cant be that far off now but opening their eyes to their lies it seems they day dream through this crap jeff3
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Reblogged this on Vox Political.
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My late father served for 30 years, first with the London Ambulance Service and then with Kent Ambulance Service. He refused a promotion to Assistant Station Officer because it was a desk job that took him away from dealing with patients. He always said that Thatcher was bad for the NHS.
He must be turning in his grave
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Reblogged this on Citizens, not serfs and commented:
3rd world service. Bet if any member of the elite needs an ambulance they will get someone fully trained.
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Reblogged this on SMILING CARCASS'S TWO-PENNETH.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Scandalous, and completely omitted from the mainstream news. Another example of the way awkward facts are suppressed and censored and why more people are turning to the internet.
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well i hope ian duncan needs an amblunce some time in the future.
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there no private ambulances though well not emergency one bupa dont do emergencey.
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So what are people in this country going to do about it? Nothing as per usual…
Goes to check if anywhere in Scotland is doing the same thing!
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Well Arriva are running ambulance services in Wiltshire so I wouldn’t say that private is not yet operating in some areas.
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It would be far more preferable if IDS were to require a HEARSE!
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Not happening in Scotland but you can bet if we vote no to Independence it won’t be long before it does. This has been the worst government in my half century and the media blackout is shameful and more like Russia than the UK
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Many of us have already paid for NHS services throughout our working lives – and still do via taxes on our State Pensions (sorry, ‘elderly benefits’). Apart from digging out our pitchforks, there must be some mechanism remaining that they haven’t destroyed that can be used to restore some sense. Isn’t it time this Government was declared to be ‘Not Fit for Any Useful Purpose’?
Could one not arrange for the entire Tory party to be Sectioned? Or do you think Vladimir P might perhaps be interested in acquiring a new colony to go with The Crimea? He must be chortling up his sleeves about the West’s steady slide into general political incompetence over the last 20 (sorry, 35) years and need do virtually nothing to encourage our demise, should he so wish!
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Most emergency ambulances do not have paramedics on board, they are normally in separate vehicles and only attend if needed, in fact they are a relatively new addition to the ambulance service anyway.
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The state pension is not an elderly benefit.
The state pension fund is fully funded from the ring fenced National Insurance Fund that has been well in funds for decades, not needing a top up from tax.
As the NI Fund is not a tax, it cannot be emptied to pay towards the national debt as believed even by the Pensioners Convention, who also failed to comprehend that the NI Fund is a contribution based pension at 12 per cent deductions per year, compulsory, from your wages over all your working life, plus your boss’s contribution.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
Pensioners, around the biggest users of emergency ambulances and NHS hospital care, contribute not only by Income Tax, but the poorest of all ages have a 90 per cent tax rate from the 75 per cent of personal taxation that comes from stealth taxes we all pay, in or out of work and however long we live. Only a quarter of personal tax money comes from Income Tax to government.
In all my life, the emergency ambulance’s paramedics actually did the life-saving, as it is the first half hour of an emergency upon which life or death depends.
Asthma, for example, needs the professional knowledge of administering oxygen and cannot wait for a drive to hospital, as it is an asphyxiation and it takes but 2 minutes before brain death occurs.
This then means there is no point in waiting for the ambulance in such places. Get in your car, get a speeding ticket and drive your family or friend to an emergency unit. You can share out the cost of the fine later.
Stick with you family or friend as long as possible, as you may end up being their sole carer once emergency care has been administered until they can be admitted to a hospital bed.
I also made a note of time and treatment in a cheap little notebook, of each nurse and doctor coming to my parents, to act as a liaison between the medical professionals doing their tests and checks on the patient in the emergency unit.
But the ambulance is not the only source of professional paramedics.
There is the First Responder car.
People need to complain about this to their councillor, who have committees on healthcare and public safety, and directly to their MP. Because the state has a duty of care to its citizens. And we have a Human Right from the state to the individual To the right of life.
There will never be privisation of emergency care as it is not profitable, but in Australia you have to pay insurance each year so as not to get a huge bill for the entirely private ambulances.
In Australia, the welfare state has all but gone in just the short time of the beginnings of Abbott’s rule, with the minimum wage crashing and far worse in a short time, than the Tories have managed in a whole 5 years. Payment is expected for various things in healthcare.
This needs to be rebutted by Ed Miliband, who is already in campaigning mode for the 2015 general election. This will come back to haunt him if he does not.
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If you want the news to get into the mainstream media, link it to the World Cup and Wimbledon. These are the ‘most important’ newsworthy items today.
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They truly are devilish vermin.
Stamp them out.
It’s the only language they understand.
There’s no point having a reasoned debate using statistics or arguments to civilised decency since they have their own desperate agenda which is a return to a vast serfdom kowtowing to a few “generous charitable benefactors”.
They continue to pursue this agenda at any cost to our country and our people.
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Replied to this on VP and probably more relevant on this thread.
This is not rocket science. If a crime takes place in the UK today you expect the first responder to be a community support officer (PCSO), if anyone attends at all.
Convicted criminals are now “guarded” and ferried about by private security companies and we are surprised when prisoners abscond. If this is a pilot scheme for the rest of the UK the deaths will mount quickly. This modern Britain – understaffed, underpayed, underqualified and ripe for privatisation. Reminds me of “A Clockwork Orange”, it’s cheaper and more efficient to let the criminals take over as they are motivated, well qualified, aren’t worried about pay and enjoy the fringe benefits – mayhem, death and self-employed. The career ladder is simple as well!
Mike at VP replied –
“If a crime is committed today I expect a police officer to attend the scene, not a PCSO; also I am never surprised when a convicted criminal absconds while being guarded by someone from a private security firm.
(I’m guessing you were implying that these should be the case but I wanted to make it clear.)”
Thanks Mike. I think you missed my attempt at irony.
I come from Gloucestershire, Cheltenham to be exact, and the norm is for the police to decide and downgrade a crime as not worth investigating due to £value and perceived outcome and send PCSO to tell the victim to do better at prevention and change lifestyle to avoid being a victim! Not at all surprised that the ambulance service is going the same way, people shouldn’t have accidents and if they do please convey yourself to the nearest A&E if you can find one open!
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How much exactly will it take before we learn to stand up for our rights? They are actually killing us.
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