This really worries me
A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood
But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one
I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x
One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency
Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home
He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E
He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor
As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit
If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't
I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system
This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal
My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption
A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus
It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad
Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention
Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do
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@Jenny_1884 I had exactly the same problem , my husband had a real bad chest and awful cough, rang doctor and told to go to the pharmacy , i knew it was worse so travelled 14 miles away to a walk in health centre to be told he had a bach chest infection and was given antibiotics.
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This is disturbing. I have been sent this footage and evidence, it is verified.
Late last night this man was found trespassing on a small farm. The owner believed he was about to break in to the house. He had climbed over a seven foot gate, and approached the house. He was caught by the understandably distressed homeowner at the door to their home.
The man spoke virtually no English and obviously had no justification to be there.
The police were called immediately, they arrived promptly.
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When questioned by the police the homeowner explained what had happened and described the intruder as a โrefugeeโ who wanted to go back to his luxury hotel. At this point the police cautioned him and said he was on very shaky grounds for talking that way and that he should be careful what he said.
The implication was clearly that he was the one who was going to be arrested if he continued...
The police then removed the intruder, and said they were taking him back to the town where he asked to go.
The homeowners believe it was implied that no further action was being taken against the man.
I have shared this with their permission.
Can you imagine how terrifying it would be to have this man break into your property late at night?
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Britain in 2025.
I will be contacting the relevant police force, asking for clarification.
We need mass deportations. Illegal migrants need to be forcibly removed from our country.
In my entire life, I have never been more disgusted with the state of our country.
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New footage of the Clonmel migrant/refugee camp in County Tipperary.
There's an 88 year old woman in Ireland being made homeless, but look at the lengths the government will go to in order to house migrants.