HI Mike,
I'm not sure if I'm reading you wrong but you seem to have the
impression that OHA's are like "nurses in treatment centres" just that
we're in the workplace and they're in holiday villages and GP surgeries
etc. There is absolutely (in my opinion) no parallel between an OHA and
a paramedic!! So response times? Not an issue to be considered now or in
the future. Our role is not to provide a mini NHS service in the
workplace to free up NHS services for outside the workplace. Although
there are some industrial OHA's out there I would imagine that they
would call ambulances/back up for workplace accidents pretty much the
same as non-industrial settings. I sometimes work in a newspaper
printing press and may get called out to back up First Aiders (never
happened to any OHA in last 3 years as far as I know) but only would
carry an extra First Aid kit and Entonox.
As for skill base of first aiders, I usually find them excellent apart
from once where OHA's did back up the first aid team. In that instance
the First Aiders very much became a babysitting service till I or a
colleague got there, often delaying treatment by not calling an
ambulance "cos the nurse is coming"!
Car
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Roberts [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 February 2004 08:19
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Clinical Training (CPD)
Hi Sandy
Thank you ;-)
You appear to echo the feedback we have been getting from the wider
world.
With regards to having stocks of IV fluids etc - obviously down to the
work area being
covered, would be interesting to see the actual response times of
ambulance
paramedics against onsite OHPs! Some rural areas are effectively covered
by
BASICS GPs, but with the new GP contracts they (GPs) are becoming an
increasingly scarce commodity, particularly out-of-hours.
Regards, Mike
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