Healthy Living

it number calls d’ ambulance of help in England struck a high news, figures of l’ exposure of center of l’ information of NHS.

Il had there 6.3 million 999 calls in 2006/07 - the almost double number d’ calls received there are 10 ans.

En spite of 6.3% rises l’ previous year, to serve d’ team-member maintained their rate of response to the calls immediately representing a danger to the life within eight minutes.

Mais the representatives of the trade unions informed qu’ a higher number d’ calls placed l’ effort on infirmiers.

Under pressure

Le a d’ number; incidents immediately representing a danger to the life (named category A) in 2006/07 was 1.8 million - to the top of 9.4% out of 2005/06, when there were 1.6 million.

Le percentage of the latter occupied within 8 minute was 74.6% - the target of the government is 75%.

Le a number of patients really carried with l’ hospital because d’ a call 999 fell to approximately 70% from 73% in 2005/06, which is in conformity with the goal of the government to reduce the number of patients carried to l’ hospital for the treatment, and in the place treated with the scène.

La target for serious calls but not immediately representing a danger to the life of the category B - a vehicle d’ ambulance able to transport the patient within 19 minute, 95% of time - was missed, but s’ was improved on l’ year derniere.

Professor Denise Lievesley, tallies higher of the center of l’ information, known as: “It encourages to see that the ambulances continue to immediately maintain their rate of response to the calls representing a danger to the life. ”

Ministre Andy Burnham of health known as: “The service d’ ambulance and their personnel provide an excellent day of service inside, day dehors.

“Those more in danger are reached more quickly - almost 75% d’ calls of category A are reached within eight minute - and more lives are sauvées.

“In l’ the patient outline most recent, patients of 98% were satisfied of the service d’ ambulance - one of the highest estimates received by n’ import which service of NHS. ”

Concern

Riz of Steve, secretary general of l’ union of service d’ ambulance, known as: “The workload was assembled constantly during the 10 last years, but without l’ significant increase in the ressources.

“We would like to see an increase in the placement for the service d’ ambulance. ”

Il says many services chose d’ to use the cheaper and inefficient personnel d’ ambulance to drive the vehicle, meaning that only the one rather than two qualified male nurses would be on board of. It says this could potentially compromise the care patient.

SAM national Oestreicher of leader d’ unison known as: “This n’ is not ambulance simply of line of the face serves d’ team-member which is stretched; the essential personnel of support in the control room and are essential elsewhere while ensuring the service can answer l’ continuous and significant climbing in the d’ number; calls d’ urgency. ”

Il said qu’ one of the reasons of l’ increase can be changes with the cover of outside-of-hours. A new contract of general practitioner in 2004 had as consequence nine in 10 family practitioners leaving to provide the care of rond-le-horloge.

Mais a department of spokesman of health known as: “It n’ y has any obviousness that the changes with arrangements of outside-of-hours encouraged l’ increase of 999 appels.

“the beginning of the current tendency antedates the changes with arrangements of outside-of-hours.”