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[mythoughts]

More on this from the Review:
 
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/4663280.Ambulance_service_launches_cleanliness_review/

This really is terrible. And look at all that money spent on new ambulances recently! What's more, with longer journeys to A&E patients will spend even more time in dirty ambulances.
 
This comes at a time when the PCT is concerned about the rise of C diff and appears flummoxed as to why. Well, maybe there's link that needs to be explored/rule out.
http://www.shapps.com/forum/index.php/topic,1292.15.html
 
 
 

[mythoughts]

On Page 9 of today's WHT a local ambulance worker has said:
 
"I can forsee patients' welfare will be seriously compromised and people will die."
 
"A rethink needs to be taken ASAP with regards to the closure of the QE2 as I do not think the Lister will cope."
 
Nick Carver the provides the usual spiel that dominates the remainder of this article. I wonder if he's appraised himself of the latest Primary Care Foundation report yet?

[mythoughts]

An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered a critical danger placed in the software used by most ambulance services. For years, 999 calls in life-threatening situations like Mrs Masons’s were accidentally “downgraded”, with call handlers told not to send the most urgent response.
 
While some services spotted the risk, ordering operatives to override the computer’s orders manually, five of England’s 12 ambulance trusts did not allow call handlers to upgrade such calls. They include the East of England ambulance service, which covers Suffolk [and Herfordshire!] and which only identified the risk after Mrs Mason’s death.

 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7489669/Woman-left-to-die-after-999-ambulance-blunder.html