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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Think it's due to them erring on the side of caution to often and sending an ambulance. I'm a member of the London ambulance trust and the future provision for ambulance service is genuinely frightening, this is how screwed our priorities are ambulance service costs 1.8 billion a year or between 2 & 5% of the nhs budget yet is responsible for 20% of the out put. The legal department sucks up 900 million for claims against the nhs  |
The thing is you're never going to hit 100% right. It would be better to err on the side of caution than cost-effectiveness. I would rather more funding was given to the ambulance service really, although I guess we all do.