Steve,
I appriciate what you are saying about the fact that things are
getting better at RUH but the fact of the matter that delays at RUH and
patients been kept waiting on the ambulance trolleys in the a/e department
NOT on the back of the ambulances as the locum from sussex said ties up the
ambulance at RUH therefore reducing the number of ambulances avalable in
wiltshire and seeing that there is only one ambulance say in chippenham at
night and that is at RUH waiting to unloaded and the nearest ambulance is in
swindon 25 mins down the M4 doesnt help the person having a MI in
chippenham.
Hospitals such as PMH SDH do not overfill that i am aware of to avoid
delaying ambulances. RUH coveres a wide catchment area and has alot of
patients to deal with i just think that even waiting for a hour on a
ambulance trolley from the patients point of view is unaceptable.
Dont want to sound like im moaning but patient care seems to getting
forgotten in light of all these goverment response times,waiting times etc
etc
Matt
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