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The ambulance service is becoming a huge problem for Tories – politicalbetting.com
The ambulance service is becoming a huge problem for Tories – politicalbetting.com
Health Sec Steve Barclay confronted by angry member of public over beleaguered ambulance service: “Twelve years. You’ve done bugger all about it”. pic.twitter.com/9O5x1yUcU2
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Betfair next prime minister
1.07 Liz Truss 93%
14 Rishi Sunak 7%
Next Conservative leader
1.07 Liz Truss 93%
14.5 Rishi Sunak 7%
New @IpsosUK polling today asked if the public trust the following to reduce the cost of living
Trust / do no trust
Starmer 39% / 51%
Sunak 36% / 55%
Johnson 35% / 62%
Truss 28% / 61%
Emily Spurrell, the Merseyside police and crime commissioner, called for greater resources from central government if police are to curb the current crime spree.
“We are still 456 officers short of where we were in 2010, and that’s a big resource for somewhere like Merseyside,” she said. We could use some of those officers to help tackle some of these issues that we’re facing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/23/its-crazy-and-it-needs-to-stop-shock-and-anger-in-liverpool-after-week-of-violence
Maybe these issues will come up in tonight's hustings.
IMO that's an indication of a service with problems, given the distances involved.
When I broke my arm in the very northwest of Scotland (Cape Wrath) the year before, a doctor saw me quickly, despite having to drive a large distance to reach me. But the nearest A&E was sic hours away in Inverness, and rather than get an ambulance, my dad and sister drove up from the Midlands to pick me and my car up.
But it's a good idea if the drivers can actually fit in the blooming things:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/18/ambulance-staff-unable-to-drive-new-vehicles-because-of-height-and-body-shape
I also wonder if they are hoping and praying that things are not as bad, hence "spin"
Given the increased demands of pensioner numbers, that makes the rest of the country poorer, and the only question is how to distribute the pain. Public services have had roughly as much fat trimmed as is possible.
Good thing we haven't done anything else to reduce our wealth generating potential.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/25/liz-truss-wins-election-tory-prime-minister
This seems to this observer to be what we should be concerned about rather than oil which seems to be settling in the $90 - $100 per barrel range at least for now.
How to become a paramedic
There are two routes to become a paramedic—in service development from technician or application to an East Midlands university offering a HCPC-approved Paramedic Science programme through UCAS.
The in-service route typically requires individuals to have employment as a Student Technician and Qualified Ambulance Technician before completing further education as a Paramedic Apprentice. This route is often referred to as ‘earn while you learn’.
However, aspiring paramedics can apply to undertake a BSc (Hons) in Paramedic Science at a wide range of universities across the UK via UCAS and can apply to EMAS upon graduation from university.
https://www.emas.nhs.uk/join-the-team/ambulance-service-roles/paramedic/
She made a lot of noise to let you know she was [that’s enough -ed.]
For family reasons I am now on the frontline of dealing with the care worker crisis and it is a bloody disgrace.
Both main parties have failed on this one for years and years.
I've just had a phone call from my mum. My new born-grand-niece is in hospital with sepsis. The ambulance people were apparently superb; 111 called an ambulance; they were blue-lighted to hospital, and a crash team were waiting for her. They are hoping she will be released in a few days.
I'm a bit borken.
There are some people (I'm told) who don't change their socks that frequently.
The only thing people are concerned about right now is boat migrants. And woke.
@Leon says so, so it must be true.
In Wales, the answer is no. There have been a number of well publicised incidents of patients waiting many hours for an ambulance.
My guess is it is probably a consequence of the difficulty of seeing a GP, so people go to A&E, so ambulances can't decant patients and they are stuck waiting outside A&E.
Actual achievement seems quite dissociated from these phrases.
My Grandfather was a native Irish speaker.
No one could remember him ever speaking it in England, mind.
When the dementia kicked in he spoke nothing else. You could talk to him in English, and be understood, but he'd reply in Irish.
“Markets bet UK interest rates will hit 4% by May“
https://www.ft.com/content/d5a5031e-1a55-45ac-8569-eef807f528b8
Always seemed to me that a well equipped 24 hour travelling doctor with common prescription medicines and basic equipment on hand could divert a lot of people away from A&E.
Either that, or make A&E a true hub where everyone goes and there is ample primary care, GPs, nurses, pharmacists etc all on hand in the one place.
But I know healthcare is a lot more complicated than that am I am probably proposing things that have been tried and failed multiple times.
If the woman turns out to be a lifelong Labour activist will that diminish the issue with the ambulance service? Or her point that the Tories have had 12 years to sort it out?
The first is the problems with A&E which mean we have ambulances waiting for hours with patients inside who can't even get in through the door of the hospital. This is clearly a major issue, perhaps the main issue and has got much worse more recently. .
But the other one is the fact that so many A&E departments at local hospitals (where there still are local hospitals) have shut. In Newark and Grantham both A&E departments have been downgraded or shut completely. Ambulances cannot take you there if you have any serious conditions (heart attacks, strokes, anything to do with the digestive system) or if you are a minor. They are also shut at night. Instead they have to take the patient to Queens at Nottingham or Kingsmill at Sutton in Ashfield (for Newark), or Boston or Lincoln for Grantham. These are trips of at least half an hour even under blue light conditions. That means even if the patient is immediately offloaded into A&E the ambulances are at least an hour in the round trips. Often more.
The NHS trusts say this centralisation is a good thing because it allows a concentration of specialisation but that doesn't take into account the extra ambulance resources that are needed to make this work. And in fact at both Newark and Grantham the number of ambulances have reduced not increased.
The system is broken and someone needs to look at it and, in the short term at least, reverse the closures of so many A&Es.
It’s effective closure during lockdowns (and reduced service even to this day) has increased reliance on over-stretched A&E resources, including ambulance teams.
If you started from scratch to figure out a primary care system that doesn’t just gatekeep but works to deliver preventative health measures, you would not come up with the current GP system.
You can see how he got there…it kind of makes sense…on Planet Vulcan.
GPs did not effectively close during lockdowns, you just couldn’t physically attend without appointments.
@dyedwoolie and @MISTY are bulls on Trump 2024.
Let me start by saying that I agree that 2024 should be a good year for the Republicans. And that a candidate with Trumpian views, but who isn't Trump (like DeSantis) would likely do extremely well.
But it is worth remembering that in 2020, Trump meaningfully underperformed his Senatorial candidates, trailing them (on average) by just under 4%.
That's pretty huge.
This time around, Trump endorsed candidates are really struggling in the polls compared to candidates who are more... independent.
Pennsylvania should at least be close. Ohio - with a partisan lean of R+15 - really shouldn't.
Georgia and Arizona should be win backs for the Republicans. And we shouldn't even be talking about incumbent Republican Senators like Johnson potentially being in trouble.
By contrast, Republican incumbents in - for example South Carolina - are running 32 point leads in the polls, against the 12 point lead that Trump got there in 2020.
It's very hard to see evidence that Trump's endorsement adds to the electability of a candidate; and there's plenty of evidence to the contrary.
And while one can point to Wyoming to talk about the Trump's popularity with the base, one also has to acknowledge Georgia, where Brian Kemp (a Republican enemy of Trump every bit as much in the ex-President's spotlight) saw off a Trump endorsed challenger by a 2:1 margin.
Not Ukraine
https://twitter.com/raphousetv2/status/1562171302672183297?s=21&t=tmoRzl1m_DbHDzyHQrF_Zg
The question is why have there been strains - continuing strains - on A&E.
The NHS is riddled with issues of course, but on this particular issue we must look at the top of the funnel.
Time for a spell in Opposition for the Tories.
Trouble is that often medics overbook, like airlines, so missed appointments just mean the next patient is called in a few minutes earlier than would otherwise be the case.
Dave and George and their governments were almost as far from this Blukip rubbish as Starmer and his shadow government are, that’s the point I’m making - yet you are claiming every bit of them and their party membership at that time sitting in government with Farage rather than Libdems and Starmer Labour, under PR? 😂
How can I give an example to you? Like this. Remember Boris Great Purge of Talented Tory Moderates 2019 - Hammond only defied whip once in his life and thrown out his party - under PR they would have danced a conga out the party with party hats on, off to government for the rest of their political careers, the rubbish blukip rump they left behind (that indeed has proved itself most utter rubbish in government) welcome to its political wilderness. Yes. That explains the change that is coming to British politics.
https://twitter.com/OstapYarysh/status/1562839264559190017
Enjoy.
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Kasich probably did get a boost from being from a neighboring state, Ohio. He is, of course, out of politics, now.
But I think that example is more evidence that, if the Republicans nominate a rational candidate, they will have a better chance than if they nominate Trump, or a Trumpian.
In general, Republicans do best if they nominate people from working class backgrounds, like Eisenhower and Nixon.
(Incidentally, speaking of electoral records, you shouldn't assume Crist will lose to DeSantis. Crist has won more elections than he's lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Crist#Electoral_history )
LOL.
Good luck Tories in marginal seats.
Suggest you dust down your CV writing skills.
Conversely, a friend has a GP who still operates the "call between 8 and 830 or get lost" appointment system, is always hurried, and has missed at least one significant issue.
So I don't think it's a rubbish system - it just has some rubbish practitioners, and it tends to be those who get in the papers.
If it gets back in.......
Pray for me tonight peebee.
I’ve put a little cash on Crist, FWIW.
Don’t answer the doorbell. I did once in the middle of Emmerdale. Sat on the mat was the snail I had thrown over the back fence the week before. I picked it up and it shouted WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR!
The Tories and UKIP on about 50% combined however did have the numbers for a majority government under PR. Unless you are suggesting Cameron would have formed a Merkel style grand coalition with Ed Miliband's Labour?