My wife was out riding her horse yesterday with her friend. Her friends horse slipped going down a road got scared then bolted. Her friend came off on the concrete and fell on her back hitting her head. She was out cold and my Mrs initially thought she was dead as she was completely non responsive.

 

She called an ambulance and it took them 55 minutes to attend!!! for most of this time her friend with serious back and head injuries was lying unconcious in the road, then she awoke now and then to scream in agony before she went unconcios again.

 

After 20 minutes the Ambulance called her to say they were busy but a private ambulance would be with her in 7 minutes. 20 minutes later the private ambulance called to say it was lost and asked for directions. When it eventually got in just under an hour there they asked "two passers by" to help get her on the back board as she had spinal injuries.

 

My wifes mum had made her way to the accident site and went in the ambulance. To her astonishment the driver got lost and had to ask her the way to the Hospital as she is a nurse there!.

 

When the poor girl got into Hospital apart from head and back injuries she had hypothermia as she had been left on the freezing concrete for so long despite passers by putting their jackets on her.

 

how bad is this an hour for an ambulance for serious injury! It was just off a main A road as well so not like it was right out in the sticks somewhere.

Thats is very bad, glad she will be ok.

And its for that exact reason if onyone ever needs an ambulence and you want it FAST you say heart problems (stopped, cant find a pulse, tight chest pains etc)

 

They will pull out all the stops then.

 

And you cant be done for fibbing, after all your not a qualified doctor ;)

thats S**T man, what a rubbish ambulance, risking a persons life because of incompetence. how is she now? hopefully she recovers and sues the nhs, if she doesnt get the money from compensation then its just going to go on some greedy useless nhs manager anyway.

Absolutely terrible and worth pursuing after this is all over.

 

They should have talked you all through making sure was alright while you were waiting for an ambulance and avoided the hypothermia entirely. How ridiculous!

:cursing: And believe me, this is happening all over the country, Please, please, please do not focus your anger on the ambulance crew, it is NOT THEIR FAULT, I used to get jobs from the ambulance station I was based at, to an area 30-40 miles away, and it's even worse now, it's all about the orcon standards (times taken), you will probably find that they were from out of the area they are from, or even worse,were St. John ambulance, if you are going to throw blame about, blame the ambulance service bosses who have never even seen the back of an ambulance in their lives, they are just accountants, not knocking accountants at all, but...............

 

This is a true story: - !! an ambulance crew were on their way to an emergency, when they hear another job go out over the radio to another ambulance crew. The crew of the first ambulance contacted the control room and said that they were going to drive past the job given to the second ambulance, and the second ambulance was going to drive past the job given to the first ambulance, so each vehicle was nearer to the scene of the opposite jobs. They said to control we think it would be better to swap the jobs around, control replied with this: - "you are not paid to think, carry on with the jobs we have given you", so each ambulance drove passed both the jobs and each other on the way to the original jobs.

 

Another true story for you: - sorry to bore you.

 

I was on a job taking a patient to hospital, when a fire engine went screaming past us, we could see smoke in the distance. It turned out that an aerosol factory had had an explosion. When we arrived at the hospital we were taking our patient to, we heard that another crew were bringing a seriousley burnt patient in. Now the ambulance station I was based at is just behind one of the best if not the best burns units in the country, so we knew that the burnt patient would be being transfered to our hospital, so we informed control, and said we would wait until the patient was stabalised at the first hospital, and we would then transfer to our hospital with the burns unit. We received the reply "no, return to station", we tried to explain that all the other vehicles in the area were busy with the other casualties from the factory, and again said we would wait to transfer, again we got the answer no, return to station for your break. We had no choice but to return to station, as we were approaching our station, a vehicle carrying the patient from the original hospital came screaming past us complete with police escort. We could have had the patient to the burns unit a lot faster, the patient died later in hospital.

 

As I have stated, please don't take your anger out on the wrong people, be sure of all the facts first.

 

It pains me to say this in this day and age, but I'm with takemetothepub on this one: -

 

And its for that exact reason if anyone ever needs an ambulance and you want it FAST you say heart problems (stopped, cant find a pulse, tight chest pains etc) or the patient has stopped breathing, I realise it's not right to lie, but if it was one of my loved ones, I wouldn't hesitate, knowing what I know from both sides of the coin. :cursing:

 

 

Cheers

Sorry, I hope the young lady involved is ok, and recovers quickly from her injuries.

It pains me to say this in this day and age, but I'm with takemetothepub on this one: -

 

LOL I know agreeing with me is a hard thing to admit :lol:

:whistling:lol.......not at all mate, sorry it looked like that....pmsl, I honestly didn't mean it to look like it pains me to agree with you..... I really do agree with you........:innocent:

Absolutely terrible and worth pursuing after this is all over.

 

They should have talked you all through making sure was alright while you were waiting for an ambulance and avoided the hypothermia entirely. How ridiculous!

 

I agree with bantambunny, this needs investigating thoroughly, the more people that complain, the more ambulance management will have to listen, so please complain about this terrible situation.

I agree with bantambunny, this needs investigating thoroughly, the more people that complain, the more ambulance management will have to listen, so please complain about this terrible situation.

 

...the sad thing is though that management are made of Teflon - all blame will slide off them like water off a duck's back and they'll just pass the blame back down to the front-line staff, saying they need retraining, or setting more and more targets for them to meet, instead of allowing them to use their brain/experience and get on with their job.

:cursing: And believe me, this is happening all over the country...

 

Cheers

 

thats some naassty story. need some more common sense in the world.