Military told not allowed to use blue lights on ambulance cover

Jedi boro

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So they are not ambulances then surely.

Health minister -

He added that they would not be able to drive ambulances under blue lights, go through red lights or break the speed limit - but would help ambulance staff to get people to A&E more quickly.
 
The obvious point is:
It doesnt matter who drives ambulances.
There is still no room in Hospitals or A&E
Patients will still be waiting outside and in corridors.
Soldiers will be facing the same situation as Paramedics.
The finger points fair and square at 12 years of Tory privatisation ["outsourcing"]
:mad:
 
So they are not ambulances then surely.

Health minister -

He added that they would not be able to drive ambulances under blue lights, go through red lights or break the speed limit - but would help ambulance staff to get people to A&E more quickly.
No way are the British Forces paying attention to that.. they get the job done.

Shocking it has come to this! Surely we can’t have anyone left think the tories are doing a good job?!
 
I Heard a noise as i was going to bed last week (12:30am). i looked out of the window and saw my 90 year old neighbour with dementia lying on the pavement outside my house in her pyjamas and with no shoes on. It was -2 at the time and the street was freezing. i went down and her son had arrived and she was saying she couldn't move and she was cold. we rang 999 because there was blood on the floor. they quoted a 5.5 hour response time.

We ended up moving her and hoping she hadn't broken anything because she would have died if we had left her outside for that long.

something needs to change.

(We got her inside carried on a chair, got her warmed up and the ambulance arrived about 20 minutes after we had got inside. She's OK now.)
 
I would love to know how much it will cost to use the military as ambulance drivers. How would they take the place of paramedics?
 
According to reports today a third of ambulance drivers believe they have witnessed a death as a result of current issues in health service (not strike related)

On another note - do the military ‘have to do as they are told’?
Must be quite a challenge for those conflicted
 
Just saw this on Twitter
The cost of meeting the nurses' pay demand - £1.6bn
🏥
Cost of Sunak's bank tax giveaway - £7.3bn
💸
They have the money to give nurses a proper pay rise- they just don't want to. RT if you back a real pay rise for our nurses
👊
 
Has anyone seen the rationale as to why the “Indepenedent” panel is recommending q pay rise llower than inflation. I haven’t seen this but wondered if there was more information around this?
 
I Heard a noise as i was going to bed last week (12:30am). i looked out of the window and saw my 90 year old neighbour with dementia lying on the pavement outside my house in her pyjamas and with no shoes on. It was -2 at the time and the street was freezing. i went down and her son had arrived and she was saying she couldn't move and she was cold. we rang 999 because there was blood on the floor. they quoted a 5.5 hour response time.

We ended up moving her and hoping she hadn't broken anything because she would have died if we had left her outside for that long.

something needs to change.

(We got her inside carried on a chair, got her warmed up and the ambulance arrived about 20 minutes after we had got inside. She's OK now.)
Terrible that mate, well done for what you did. We need change.
 
Has anyone seen the rationale as to why the “Indepenedent” panel is recommending q pay rise llower than inflation. I haven’t seen this but wondered if there was more information around this?
I think the recommendation was made last February and based on a much lower inflation rate. It's not independent.
 
Ne Nah Ne Nah,
Hey you can't do that
'So bloody sack me then'
And you can't do that.

Just resolve the issue by putting a police car in front and behind the Ambulance.
 
Just saw this on Twitter
The cost of meeting the nurses' pay demand - £1.6bn
🏥
Cost of Sunak's bank tax giveaway - £7.3bn
💸
They have the money to give nurses a proper pay rise- they just don't want to. RT if you back a real pay rise for our nurses
👊

Sunak was asked today, at a select cumitten about ending foodbanks (as per a previous promise)
He said its sad to see people on foodbanks and…….. well that was it. No action, nothing.

As per nurses pay - its a political choice.

The word on the street (political journo) - Sunak et al believe public opinion will turn against the nurses (and they will leverage any death/injury to make that happen) allowing Sunak to make a one off special payment and get the Tories back on the front foot.

On another note - our business had a presentation today from an economist immersed in government.
He was asked, specifically, if public sector pay rises would add to inflation.
He diplomatically said there was a difference of opinion between economic advisers and cabinet as to the validity of that claim..
 
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