South central ambulance service

[thomas michael]

It would be easy to blame immigrants but in this area the biggest problem is a concentration of substance abusers who are normally domiciled in the United Kingdom and are several generations back UK citizens. They are not just unemployed but they're unemployable and you will find that they are the third generation of people who have never had a job don't want a job and live on benefits you can go to an estate here and find a woman who has 45 children by four or five different fathers and then go a few doors away and find the same batch in Fathers of side a similar pattern of children an awful lot of these guys have bipolar I don't have any answers for it but legalising cannabis won't help all they'll do is grow Sam and make an income stream . They sell the Old bicycle has been borrowed from somewhere else , and they top themselves up with cheap cider . The biggest majority of immigrants at the hospital have a general group title called nurse or doctor . Portsmouth as a huge homeless problem I don't know how many people are living out on the street but there's quite a few . And do know how to claim everything they're entitled to .

hi rob page
I know your in not so good health and your use of the health system where you are, gives you first hand imformation.
but like you although ( I'm not in bad health thank god ) my only personal need to visit here to a hospital in about
thirty years was last year, I had fallen and done my ribs in, and during the night my wife woke me from whatever sleep I managed to get and told me she was taking me to hospital as I was crying and moaning with the pain, reluctantly and because I was genuinely in so much pain I agreed.
at the hospital we found it was a 7 hour wait to be assessed yes that is seven hours, whilst still at the reception there was a eastern European drunk kicking the drinks machine screaming he wanted attending to, his illness as far as I could see I small scratch on his forehead,
whilst standing in the waiting area I relised that I with one of a few more where actually indigenous to this country and the whole waiting room was full of these interlopers.
I left without being seen and took paracetamol for the next four weeks,
tom

[Jim Brady]

As a matter of interest Tom what hospital was that in this part of the world,I,ve done the 4 hours but never 7.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Keith at Tregenna]

First responders if called will have already communicated with the hospital as will Doctors.

If arriving otherwise, reporting at reception should not take to long.

Triage is then generally the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately.

Hence, a cut finger takes longer than a stroke patient.

K.

[robpage]

Our local Hospital the QA Portsmouth is so congested even a suspected heart attack or stroke victim can be two hours plus in the ambulance outside A & E , Triage starts in the car park , but the congestion is unbelievable , I was last there 10 /2014 , it was bad now it is worse . The A & E is full of substance abusers 24/7 , 16 year old alcoholics with poor liver function . the GPs have an ambulatory clinic they can send people too which gives some slight relief . unless you see it you wouldn't believe it .

[Keith at Tregenna]

Not doubting your experience, triage here starts at the scene.

Recent witness all and more, substance abuse with an own priority, does not affect others.

Totally, different admission, treatment wards etc.

K.

[robpage]

Not doubting your experience, triage here starts at the scene.

Recent witness all and more, substance abuse with an own priority, does not affect others.

Totally, different admission, treatment wards etc.

K.

Unfortunately Keith in this area it does the problem has been around for an awful long time and it's not getting any better that is why when people talk about cannabis you'll find I have a very harsh reaction to it because it is seriously affecting the local hospital some of these kids and by kids I mean I would say they're likely under 40 I just so spaced out it's unbelievable and if you try and talk to them apparently life is so bad but the cheap cider and the weed and a little bit of Charlie up the nose all takes them to a world away from this one it's not my field of expertise but it does need addressing very urgently the Portsmouth Hospital covers quite a large area

[Captain Kong]

Hi Rob
that is why my son at QA did a one hour TV documentary on `Panorama`, about three years ago on cheap cider and vodka use by kids in the Portsmouth area..
A lot of Kids are killing themselves with it.
Portsmouth area is about the worst in the country for it.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Unfortunately Keith in this area it does the problem has been around for an awful long time and it's not getting any better that is why when people talk about cannabis you'll find I have a very harsh reaction to it because it is seriously affecting the local hospital some of these kids and by kids I mean I would say they're likely under 40 I just so spaced out it's unbelievable and if you try and talk to them apparently life is so bad but the cheap cider and the weed and a little bit of Charlie up the nose all takes them to a world away from this one it's not my field of expertise but it does need addressing very urgently the Portsmouth Hospital covers quite a large area

I am in contact with several MP's that way, can ask more

Generally, triage works elsewhere.

K.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Rob.
As my wife used to work in a hospital; we watch the program on the A&E in St George in London, I can see where you are coming from, some of the people who are in the waiting room for treatment of minor complaints would get short shift from the emergency Dept in our small hospital, unless its a child, they tell them to see the Dr. On one program we saw two big women and a man, I wont put their ethnicity on here, when the Dr left the room they opened a drawer and took out a pair of rubber surgical gloves and blew them up and generally fooled around, they should have been thrown out and charged with stealing and contamination, who knows what they transferred onto the other gloves. We have watched the program for awhile and it's no wonder that the NHS is in strife.
Cheers Des

[robpage]

I am in contact with several MP's that way, can ask more

Generally, triage works elsewhere.

K.

I don't doubt for one minute but it does work in many places but let me try and put it in simple terms if you're very urgent you could spend two to three hours in an ambulance outside the A&E unit if you are non urgent you could spend 6 to 8 hours inside waiting for the triage is working but the waiting times and the amount of patients in relation to the capacity to deal with them is tear jerking painful . If you need an X-ray then you are better waiting and going to the walk-in clinics at some of the smaller hospitals in the area that do that type of thing . What is terribly sad is the people that are gumming the system up are all self-inflicted and to be perfectly honest if you speak to them don't give a damn except for themselves