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| UK Ambulance Squads Get Bonuses Not to Transport Patients to EDs |
| 2010-03-28 |
| The Sunday Telegraph has discovered that dozens of Primary Care Trusts in London are now paying the capital's ambulance service a £38 bonus for each patient crews do not send to hospital. The bonuses are among dozens of schemes being tried out by ambulance trusts across the country as they attempt to improve their emergency response times and help A&E departments meet controversial targets to treat all patients within four hours of arrival Coming soon to a country near you(?) |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #6 You're a special case, Redneck Jim. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-03-28 20:25 |
| #5 I had a mild stroke and drove myself to the Hospital (Wife has RP and is near blind) all is well, it was only a quarter mile or so. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-03-28 16:24 |
| #4 Coming soon to a country near you FTFY, Anguper. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-03-28 13:11 |
| #3 One would hope the idea is that the EMTs evaluate the situation to see if it really is a medical emergency. When services are free or low-cost, people tend to go to that as a first choice, rather than only when necessary. Nonetheless, people are going to die when those EMTs who are venal allow less than $60 affect their decisions. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-03-28 09:55 |
| #2 .. to treat all patients within four hours of arrival Huh? This is the model of 'better medical' care of universal coverage? Nuff said. We're not talking a mass casualty situation here people. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-03-28 09:33 |
| #1 The inevitable consequence (sooner or later) of big government micro-management of things better left to intelligent people to manage for themselves. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-03-28 08:37 |