Local Labour Party call for urgent meeting over ambulance cuts in north Norfolk
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
9:43 AM
Local campaigners have called for an urgent meeting with an ambulance chief after their petition against cuts hit 2,500 signatures at the weekend.
On the back of a reduction in fleet across the county the North Norfolk Labour Party started the Act On Ambulances petition and are calling for an urgent meeting with the chief executive of the East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST), Hayden Newton.
North Walsham is set to lose its only ambulance vehicle to be replaced by a rapid response vehicle (rrv) and Cromer is set to lose 136 hours of its ambulance to be replaced by 52 hours from an rrv.
The changes come into effect as a result of government cuts of £50m over the next five years.
The meeting would be to discuss the public feeling.
Actor Roger Lloyd Pack also joined Stephen Fry at the weekend in lending celebrity support to the campaign.
● The petition can be signed online at www.actonambulances.co.uk.
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5 comments
It took 45 minutes for an ambulance in North Walsham today to attend to an OAP who had been knocked down by a car.
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omnishambles
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
As a frontline Paramedic with the East of England Ambulance (Diservice), patient confidentiality forbids me to give specifics, but comments like Christine's are all too common Iam afraid. Watch Panorama BBC1 8-30 on Monday 3 September. Should be VERY interesting.
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Rolf
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Over the weekend I heard of a 104-year-old lady in Holt who was left waiting 6 hours for an ambulance, and a lady in Sheringham who was left on the floor of a fish and chip shop for 4 hours. This is before the ambulance fleet is cut.
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Jono
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
If they send a rapid reponse unit and it arrives within 8 minutes as far as the trust is concerned they have met their government target, boxed ticked, everyone happy. If the patient is still laying on the ground 2 12 hours later because there isn't an ambulance available to pick them up off the ground and transport them to hospital, well they don't really care.
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Christine Good
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
if there wasnt this petition would anyone stand up for norfolk? the chief executive has shown no signs of setting up a consultation and mp norman lamb voted for the cuts which mean fewer ambulances!
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nhs lover
Tuesday, August 28, 2012