[Crimson Dynamo]

Winifred Soanes, 95, fell down & broke her hip in Christchurch High Street,
Dorset, at 2.30pm. Out with her 92 year old husband she had to wait 5 hours
for an ambulance, as she was "not a priority".


She was helped by members of the public & recovering in hospital.

To add insult to injury, Andrew developed a chest infection as a result of being
out in the cold so long and cannot visit his wife in hospital.





https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other...rs/ar-AA1v2BUe

[Livia]

More importantly, did they ask if she was pregnant and what her preferred pronouns were? I mean, they spent all that money on diversity training instead of more staff/ambulances, I hope they feel it's worth it.

[arista]

Thats terrible
Glad she is still Alive

[Gusto Brunt]

God Almighty.

[Livia]

I just mentioned this to my Dad. He was a paramedic before he retired. It really upsets him to see how far and how quickly things have declined.

[Cherie]

I would like to know what were priorities

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Cherie Christmas

I would like to know what were priorities

It'd be morbid to hope there were heart attacks and strokes, but I do hope they had jolly good reason to leave her.

[Crimson Dynamo]

MSM will blame austerity

but we all know then reality...

[smudgie]

Disgraceful. Bad enough waiting that long at home but out in the cold street, shame on them all.

[LaLaLand]

A guy literally dropped dead outside my house last year on the pavement, cardiac arrest. Thankfully a neighbour ran out and performed CPR on him and got him back eventually but even then we couldn’t get an ambulance for three/four hours. They told us it would be best if he could make his own way to hospital. He was literally deceased 15 minutes prior. Crazy.

[rusticgal]

My dad had a fall nearly 2 years ago on the 19th December. His was seen at home and given a few tests to see if he had had a stroke…the GP who visited later said if we had any concerns to call 999 immediately. When my brother went to put him to bed he could not stand up…999 called at midnight and arrived at midday the next day. He had suffered a stroke which ultimately took his life some 4 months later…

[Oliver_W]

I'm really grateful that my dad's cardiac arrest was responded to in 20 mins - even more grateful that my step-mum is a swimming instructor, and knew exactly what to do!

[user104658]

Sadly not an unusual story and of course it's because of under-funding and the mess that the Tories have made of the NHS - especially emergency departments. The issue isn't actually a lack of paramedics and ambulances... it's the backlogs for hospital admission. All of the ambulances are stuck in queues outside A&E.

Priority is always going to go to "blue light emergencies" (heart attacks, strokes, serious accidents i.e. when there is heavy bleeding/possible internal bleeding - usually RTC's).

But even considering that - 5 hours is obscene.