Ambulance Strike

[smurfchops]

If they are still on strike over Christmas and New Year festivities, what will happen to all the paralytic drunks who have collapsed outside the pub, in the gutter?

[ToraToraTora]

dunno where do you drink?

[Atheist]

Are the binmen on strike on those days?

[tiggerblue10]

People should take responsibility for themselves before they go down the paralytic drunk route.

[choux]

We were just talking about that. It is in the news:
Don't get drunk
Don't drive
Don't do anything "risky"

I don't suppose many, if any, will take heed. People are just too self-centred. I am sure some wouldn't dream of having the Christmas/New Year experience without getting plastered :(

[douglas9401]

Do you live in Dickensian times, smurfchops?

Surely people have a duty of care to themselves, especially in times of dire national emergency like this isn't.
They'll just have to fend for themselves like the rest of us.

[wolf63]

Where I live that seldom happens.

[choux]

douglas ?
Try telling that to the 93 year old woman in Bangor with a broken hip who spent 25 hours on a floor waiting for an ambulance.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11557625/Pensioner-93-left-lying-floor-waiting-ambulance-25-HOURS-hip-fracture.html

[douglas9401]

We're talking about drunks, choux, not the injured elderly.

Whatever ambulances are available will be for the blameless injured.

[maggiebee]

Ambulance drivers not on strike in Scotland. Friend had a suspected heart attack yesterday and her daughter said the ambulance was there in 20 minutes. Great service.

[MONEILL45]

Pay them and the nurses a fair and decent wage.Staff hospitals and emergency services to the proper safe level.REMEMBER WE ARE £350 MILLION POUND A WEEK BETTER OFF FROM BORIS'S BUS.

[choux]

douglas, those ambulances will be available for red and certain amber cases, neither of which includes broken hips.

[bobbinwales]

Yes we shouldnt undervalue them Moneill... but hasnt NHS spending allready gone up by more than £350million a week (which is only 20 billion a year) anyway compered to 2018, so the moneys allready been spent or accounted for. Lets keep brexit out of this IMO or it'll detract from the real issue

[Snackrite]

Difficult when they advise even medical students to be fully informed about Brexit and the impacts it has had. Take all factors into account. Underfunding. Poor wages. Decreasing staff levels.
Brexit is intertwined in it all.
https://www.themedicportal.com/application-guide/medical-school-interview/nhs-hot-topics/brexit-and-the-nhs/

[bobbinwales]

Underfunding?
So you can say how much was spent in 2010, 2015, 2022 and then how much should be spent
Come back when you have some figure's and we can have a sensible discussion about real figure's not what special interest pressure groups of people on twitter say,,,, until then I'll just assume you dont really know

[fitdarren]

Choux I agree with you, that made me cry when I read it earlier. Rightly or wrongly, I don't agree with these strikes. I care very little about the paralytic drunks.

[choux]

darren, I agree.

[Snackrite]

Twitter hasn’t even been mentioned. At least there will be one less candidate to undergo a viva voce. Phew, lucky escape.

[Snackrite]

https://ibb.co/ByggyK0

[cashier]

Nhs staff are not poorly paid.

[Barsel]

I couldn't care less about paralytic drunks and I have never thought they should be the responsibility of the ambulance service or the police.