Ambulance waiting times.

[withnail71]

Managed to shatter my tib and fib on saturday night. Luckily i was with friends at the time. happened at about 12.30 pm. Basically it was pissing down and i slipped on a muddy bank and jarred my leg in a pothole. They rang an ambulance straight away, after 45 mins nobody had turned up so they rang again.At 2 am a paramedic in a car turned up, he had driven 45 miles ! it was pitch black and pouring down with rain, he didnt have a torch !! he tried putting a line in my arm, fucked it up, and managed to cover me in blood.his gas and air bottle was not functioning so i had no pain relief. At approx 02.45 an ambulance turned up, from 5 miles up the road. I eventually got to hospital at 5 am.

WTF is that all about ???

Get to hospital and i spend4 1/2 days on a fucking cancer wing being overlooked because im on the wrong ward.

This country is fucked. Seriously.

I would just like to add, the ambulance crew were fucking superb.

[Fugitive]

Instead of lying there whinging, you could have got up and walked it off like a real man and freed up an ambulance for somebody who really needed it.

[Acid]

My dad is a paramedic and he spends most of his time going to people who don't need an ambulance, people who just want a lift to the hospital, people who don't need any help whatsoever, kids messing around, druggies wanting some free morphine amongst other things and he still thinks the people he works for are worse than them.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Called one for somebody when I was away for a few days in Somerset. They were there by the time I put the phone down. 3 minutes, tops.

[Charles Penrose]

Bert Trautman played fifteen minutes with a broken neck. He just got on with it.

 

You fell down the bank at the back of Tinky Winky's gaff and suddenly the world owes you an Ambulance?

[lifetime fan]

I had to call an ambulance for a 73 year old guy with Parkinsons who'd fallen over, hit his head and couldn't pick himself up off the floor.

 

'He didn't meet criteria for an ambulance'.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I had to call an ambulance for a 73 year old guy with Parkinsons who'd fallen over, hit his head and couldn't pick himself up off the floor.

 

'He didn't meet criteria for an ambulance'.

 

Another oldie, trying it on. Pull the other one, Granddad. Rightly told where to go.

 

Also, fucking disgusting.

[Sugar Ape]

Fuck!

 

Stupid fucking thread making me fuck my post up, you deserve your broken bones.

[Guest ShoePiss]

Where did this happen?

[withnail71]

This happened in the middle of a town of 25000 people.

[Guest ShoePiss]

where?

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I know this is sad, but I just looked up response times. 75% within 0-8mins, 95% within 19 minutes. Pretty good, I'd say.

[lifetime fan]

Another oldie, trying it on. Pull the other one, Granddad. Rightly told where to go.

 

Also, fucking disgusting.

 

 

The gentleman received a grovelling apology from Great Western Ambulance Service.

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

man up!

 

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