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Unbeliever wrote:
Dave wrote:
If various different government departments have been given the
right to enter your home, just where does this put your basic
European rights to privacy?

Dave

Privacy, what privacy? Under the various regulations and laws
spouting from both this country and the EEC there is no such thing
as privacy now - George Orwell's 1984 has arrived! (It was a bright
cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.)

All private telephone calls, e-mails and internet traffic is now
intercepted (and can be kept for up to 2 years), and the various
bits of stored information can be accessed by the police etc along
with various town hall mandarins - and even the ambulance service
using RIPA and a few other bits of legislation.

The ambulance service can track the address of a landline phone or
the location of a mobile in seconds. They only do so because of the
idiot Govmint targets that insist on an 8 minute response on Cat A
calls, regardless of clinical outcome.

I don't get your problem with this (assuming it wasn't ironic which
the bit I snipped suggested not)

It was ironic I suppose because the crews main motivation is the clinical
outcome.

As you can't know the clinical outcome until the person has reached
the hospital (or otherwise received treatment), how can you set a
target for attending to that person, that takes the outcome into
account?

If they can restart someones heart, get them breathing or stem excessive
blood loss it effects the clinical outcome. If they can get a patient to
A&E alive its obviously much better.

Current 'solution' to beating the time target is to use FRU's (fast response
cars). This could well mean a young female paramedic, attending a violent
situation, in a rough area, in the early hours - alone.

90% of the time an ambulance has to attend as well, because the FRU isn't as
well equipped & can't transport people to A&E.

This ties up 2 vehicles & 3 crew members on 1 incident + 2 journeys. They
would rather use the resources to put more fully crewed ambulances on the
road, which they reckon would improve clinical outcome, but that wouldn't
meet the immediate 'target'.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk