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UK: Ambulance response times worst on record - and A&E waits hit new high
SKY News ^ | January 12, 2023

Posted on 01/12/2023 4:21:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Emergency patients across the country are forced to endure the longest average waiting times in recorded history - with ambulances sent to people suffering conditions like heart attacks and strokes taking more than an hour and a half.

Average ambulance response times in England last month were the longest on record - as more than half of people at major A&Es had to wait longer than four hours for the first time since records began in 2011.

The latest NHS England figures also showed a total of 50.4% of patients attending major A&E departments were not seen within the target time of four hours.

That is 4.9% worse than November and 19% worse than the equivalent month pre-pandemic, in December 2019.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ambulances; england; healthcare; heartattacks; notgreat; notgreatengland; socialism; strokes

1 posted on 01/12/2023 4:21:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

By way of comparison, I had to call an ambulance (Central Texas) about a year or so ago. It was here in 5 minutes.


2 posted on 01/12/2023 4:29:29 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In Britain *everyone* has the right to healthcare that’s delivered weeks...or months...too late.


3 posted on 01/12/2023 4:34:17 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Cen-Tejas
A few years ago my young niece (30 years old) was found to have a fairly serious heart condition. It wasn't immediately life threatening but it certainly needed to be addressed. Within 24 hours of the recommendation that she see an "interventional Cardiologist" she was in the recovery room of a world famous hospital sporting a new heart valve.

You won't find that in Britain...Canada...or many other places.

4 posted on 01/12/2023 4:39:35 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

UK is toast. I used to blame it all on the everyday people. I know now that it is governments that elect themselves and the people have no real say.

UK, actual natural born Brits are a dying out breed being overtaken by invaders allowed in by government.

Like here in America. Our fate? Just watch them.


5 posted on 01/12/2023 4:40:00 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Clap for carers!


6 posted on 01/12/2023 4:44:15 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Every time I hear about socialized medicine and how expensive our healthcare is in the U.S., I think about my heart attack. An ambulance was at my house, in the country, not city, in minutes. When I got to the hospital a small army of doctors and nurses, including a very good cardiologist, were standing there waiting for me. In a very short time I had the blockage cleared, a stent inserted, and was basically fine. Doesn’t sound like that would have happened in the UK and I would be dead.


7 posted on 01/12/2023 5:54:03 AM PST by suthener ( )
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To: dforest

>>>UK is toast. I used to blame it all on the everyday people. I know now that it is governments that elect themselves and the people have no real say.

UK, actual natural born Brits are a dying out breed being overtaken by invaders allowed in by government.

Like here in America. Our fate? Just watch them.<<<

I have watched the browning of America like everyone else. Your comment about being overtaken is offensive to me. Nobody forced white America to have so few kids that the population of this country would be shrinking if it were not for immigration.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/226292/us-fertility-rates-by-race-and-ethnicity/

The white birth rate is now 1.55 children per woman. You need a birth rate of 2.1 just to stay even. If native born Americans prefer vacations and luxury items over children, so be it. Please don’t whine about being overtaken tho.


8 posted on 01/12/2023 6:04:52 AM PST by BJ1
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Don’t get offended, I know of more than a few who can’t get pregnant due to low sperm or other fertility problems. I find it offensive that someone would think everyone is being selfish when many want kids but cannot have them.

The question is why are these fertility problems such a big issue now. What has changed?

Oh we are are being overtaken and I ain’t whining.


9 posted on 01/12/2023 6:31:49 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here in the US, they show up and then do NOTHING except DELAY your trip to the hospital where you can actually get the help you need from health care “professionals”, not wannabees.

Hey Joe, get the defibrillator. I got it, I’m just reading the directions.

I’m DYING. I know dear, just let me take your temperature, blood pressure, start fluids, give you a full body exam for skin cancer, and then we will be on our way to the hospital.


10 posted on 01/12/2023 8:02:34 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: dforest

>>>Don’t get offended, I know of more than a few who can’t get pregnant due to low sperm or other fertility problems. I find it offensive that someone would think everyone is being selfish when many want kids but cannot have them.

The question is why are these fertility problems such a big issue now. What has changed?

Oh we are are being overtaken and I ain’t whining.<<<

I have no knowledge if infertility is getting worse or not as time goes on. But I do know there have been over 60 million abortions since roe v. wade. I know the black demo is much more likely to have abortions, but I’m going to guesstimate 40 million of those were white babies. There, that’s why you feel this country is being “over taken”. it’s self inflicted by white america on white america.

Murica! USA! USA! USA!

Of course God has removed his blessing that He once bestowed on this country. We are now cursed and will suffer accordingly imho.


11 posted on 01/12/2023 8:37:11 AM PST by BJ1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was a volunteer EMT for more than 20 years and even in rural areas typical response times were in minutes not anywhere near one hour. Perhaps the Brits should dump the government system and run their own community ambulance services with volunteers.i
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12 posted on 01/12/2023 8:43:20 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Gay State Conservative

Wow! I bet that put a smile on a lot of family faces!!!

Awesome!


13 posted on 01/12/2023 9:19:47 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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