Ambulance drivers strike: what ‘risky’ activity will you be avoiding then?

I think the activity carrying the most risk these days is 'voting conservative'

Having an opinion on here that doesn't quite fit with certain left of center posters, that and bungee jumping.

I’m still undecided over auto-asphyxiation

Nah, I'm still game for a spicy danger ham shank. Probably won't ride at the same time though, I'll keep it old school.

Louise?

This would apply under normal Tory times.

We were already at the crippled service stage long before the strikes.

I will simply avoid going into my town centre like normal at Xmas.

Having just dropped a chopping board on my foot whilst washing up and then cut my finger opening a new CD I’ve decided to go to bed and not get up till we have a labour govt.

Ambulance Drivers?

I'll be avoiding visiting England or Wales.

Having just dropped a chopping board on my foot whilst washing up and then cut my finger opening a new CD I’ve decided to go to bed and not get up till we have a labour govt.

Sleep well king. See you in a couple of years, jealous of the banging mega-nap you're about to have. 🤘

I’ll be avoiding visiting England or Wales.

😂

See this a lot. Glad someone else did.

Ambulance Drivers?

Highly skilled paramedics surely.

Driving

Damn, I’ve got some logs to chop. Might get one of the kids to do it instead. Safety first and all that.

been to see my uncle today, his son is the boss at yorkshire air ambulance and paramedics.
told me that with the army taking over the driving on strike days, that they were not allowed to drive on blues and two's. or to drive over speed limit.
i reckon stress levels will be off the scale.

Yup or diagnose many conditions, treat them, administer drugs, refer to alternative care or leave at home and can’t Recognise Life Extinct.

I particularly loved this from the Guardian piece

Health chiefs made the remarkable intervention of asking people to avoid getting drunk during the strike, four days before Christmas, as the potential for disruption in transporting people to hospital is so severe

Good luck with that! 😂

Drac - apologies for my incorrect and thoroughly inaccurate job description.,

I'm going to resist telling one of the sales staff to stop touching his cock while he's talking to me. I did my best today to ignore it, but then when he followed me into my room and still had his hands down his pyjamas*, that was the last straw and I had a little outburst.

*Yes Christmas pyjamas are suitable attire for a workplace these days.

I thought this was all sorted with 1200 troops coming in to cover the nation and hospital's being told to clear beds 🤣

Wrap yourselves in bubble wrap at midnight!

i reckon stress levels will be off the scale.

Welcome to the NHS!

Yup or diagnose many conditions, treat them, administer drugs, refer to alternative care or leave at home and can’t Recognise Life Extinct.

Poor level of scab labour you get these days.

Is there anybody down south who can keep a close eye on WCA over the next few days?

I think if you live in certain parts of the country you should have been avoiding ‘risky’ situations for the last 6-12 months

My local Hospital Trust has approximately 50 ambulances waiting outside it today and that’s unfortunately not that unusual

This is why nurses and ambulance crews are striking tomorrow.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/telford/2022/12/20/critical-incidents-declared-at-the-royal-shrewsbury-and-princess-royal-hospitals/

Getting out of bed in the middle of the night.

crossing the streams, Maddie on Traitors reckons more people die having a shit than anything else, so i shall be avoiding prunes and strong black coffee, and moving to a diet exclusively of eggs and co-codamol

i would love that sunak ****er to slip on ice a put his back out. and then to be stuck in a ambulance for 14 hours, with a pi55ed off squaddie driver for company.

C'mon folks. Let's not denigrate the servicemen and women who have been told to step in. They'll do their absolute best I'm sure. There'll also be a lot less crap taken from pissheads after midnight.

Haha do you think the rich swine would be using the NHS? Private all the way for that arse.

critical incident declared at ours today - clearing beds, my arse; we're neck-deep in the rising shit

C’mon folks. Let’s not denigrate the servicemen and women who have been told to step in. They’ll do their absolute best I’m sure. There’ll also be a lot less crap taken from pissheads after midnight.

No one is. Just pointing out they can’t replace highly trained and skilled staff with unqualified squaddies.

Yeah went into critical yesterday afternoon. Not sure if it’s even been lifted yet.

Think I'll listen to what my mum used to tell me and give up running with scissors for the foreseeable.

I wouldn't be too concerned about caving. The rescue teams are all volunteers and we have our own ambulances so would get you to a hospital pdq. Likewise Mountain Rescue. You would be far more likely to have issues if you tripped in the high street.

A lot of tasteless comments on this thread.

I fully support the strikes and amazing work that the NHS does, in spite of some of the media.

I've been in hospital visiting my nan and I can see the ambulances cued up in S****horpe, and it's not getting better.

The government needs to start doing the job it's neglected to do for the the last ten years.

Christmas shoppings off then..
👍👍👍

Just pointing out they can’t replace highly trained and skilled staff with unqualified squaddies.

of course you can you ‘orrible little man! You won’t get the same outcome, but so be it. “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” A.Tory.

I’ve postponed my chainsaw juggling practice until Thursday. I do, however have a dental checkup.

Just don't do what Tom Cruise is doing in his latest movie stunt like riding bike over the cliff.

No strike in Scotland so I'm going to throw myself down the stairs

Highly skilled paramedics surely

Of varying skill levels and grades, but all drive ambulances, soooo… <\devilsadvocatemode>

I remember being called a first aider with a driving license by Jeremy Clarkson 15 years ago, and Tory government ministers regularly call us drivers when they want to belittle the profession.

Ken Clark in 1989 called paramedics ’glorified taxi drivers’. Classy.

What everyone should be avoiding really is one of the most dangerous daily activities almost all of us do: drive. I really wouldn't want to have a serious crash today!

I’m going to resist telling one of the sales staff to stop touching his cock while he’s talking to me.

I'm presuming you don't work in a poultry dealership?

Ken Clark in 1989 called paramedics ’glorified taxi drivers’. Classy.

That’s fine, as long as he accepts he’s just a glorified tobacconist

Anyone risking going out on their bike today then?

Anyone risking going out on their bike today then?

Yes

Yesterday the trust my wife works at (ACP in ED) had at 7am when she arrived- 188 people in the dept with another 74 waiting to be seen. Ambulances stacked 3 deep outside.
That was not an abnormal situation nowadays.
She tells me of patients seeing out their whole stays in hospital of 1-3 days without leaving ED.
She also reckons that most days, there are more patients in ED awaiting admission than there are people waiting outside in ambulances so if they actually did something about patient flow the issue would be dramatically reduced.
In answer to the actual thread, I’ll be avoiding talking to a couple of people I know for fear of assaulting them because of their right wing, Tory opinions.

Tomorrow I'm getting on a plane (very safe, apparently) and flying into the UK (very unsafe) but I'm going to Glasgow which is probably one the safest places in the UK at the moment.

I haven't been back since 2017. Has much changed?

Is there anybody down south who can keep a close eye on WCA over the next few days?

I'm concerned he's not posted on the thread yet.....

Anyone risking going out on their bike today then?

Yes. Same as I did on 07/07/2005 when they implemented the same kind of dispatch protocol.