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> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:21:31 -0000
> Subject: Waiting list protocols
> From: "John Charlton" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "GP UK" <[log in to unmask]>
> Just been to a lecture from the Ambulance (guy in charge) re. the
> assessment protocol for the prioritisation of the time limits for ambulance
> transport. (GP's are responsible for prioritising the time the patient can
> wait when they request transport).
We have a particularly irritating version of this.
Our night time ambulance cover on the Dengie Peninsula was withdrawn
some years ago as we're just not sick at night often enough.
Whenever we request an immediate ambulance we are told that it could
be up to an hour and will that be OK. Well it has to be doesn't it so
the request gets turned into a 'pickup within the hour' and they
achieve the standard requested.
End of year statistics show that all calls from the Dengie were dealt
with in the allotted time so obviously the decision to withdraw night
time cover was the correct one.
It's difficult to be difficult with them due to BASICs involvement
- another source of SOS (Save our Statistics) calls.
Mike
Mike North
GP Maylandsea Essex
Editor EQUIP (Formerly Essex MAAG) Magazine
http://www.equip.ac.uk
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