East Midlands Ambulance Service invests in front line staff and vehicles
Patients across Lincolnshire needing an ambulance to deal with their emergency will soon benefit from more front line staff and vehicles being introduced by East Midlands Ambulance Service.
Over £2.8 million is being spent to bring 140 emergency care assistants (ECAs) into the service by the end of the summer.
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They will support the work of paramedics and ensure the most skilled clinicians are available to respond to the most serious calls.
EMAS has also made changes to the staffing of its Lincoln control centre.
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They are investing in more clinical assessors to deal with the many calls received that are not life-threatening.
By the end of April EMAS will also have replaced or upgraded 55 vehicles.
Phil Milligan, EMAS’ chief executive, said: “Demand is greater than ever before so we are working within the funds available to us to ensure we have the right people and resources in place to respond
to calls quickly and appropriately.
"This means investing in our frontline services.
“These developments support our aim to deliver a modern, fit-for-purpose service.”
Comments
by DS999
Monday, March 18 2013, 2:41PM
“EMAS employs 2700 staff. With 999 demand increasing at 7% per year, EMAS would need to recruit 189 staff just to keep up with rising demand. So this is not extra staff at all. Furthermore, ECAs only have a few weeks training. EMAS needs to increase the numbers of paramedics and even bring back Technicians. The vehicle investment is not new either, as it is part of a rolling replacement programme. This story is being put out in readiness for EMAS announcement regarding station closures. EMAS is planning to close over half the regions ambulance stations. It is even spinning this now as 'stand by points' were changed to 'community ambulance points' and now the BBC are reporting them as 'Community Ambulance Stations'! EMAS new PR Director is hoping you won't notice.
Of course the real problem is the NHS is having to make £20 billion of efficiency savings (we are not allowed to call them cuts). At the same time the NHS is going through a massive change due the Health and Social Care Act which means all NHS Services have to go out to competitive tender. Effectively this will privatise the NHS by the back door on a gradual basis so yet again the public will not have noticed. EMAS lost its Patient Transport Services last year to private firms Arriva and NSL. NHS Direct will close on 1st April and the new 111 service will take over. For Lincolnshire 111 will be run by Harmoni from a call centre in Suffolk. Harmoni are owned by Care UK who is owned by Bridgpoint Venture Capitalists who have links with donations to the Tory Andrew Lansley. What is left of our NHS is being set up to fail so we are more inclined to accept the privatised running of it.
They are moving us to an American style health service. In the US health spend is double per head of population than what we spend here. A privatised model is less efficient and more expensive that a nationalised model.
Unfortunately, all three parties in Westminster are following this course. If we think Labour will save the day we have another thing coming. It is time for a new way of running things and a new voice in parliament that represents working people once again. As it is, they are all in it for themselves and their rich coorporate backers.
Oh, and if you think UKIP will make it better, please take a moment to look at their manifesto on the NHS. They plan to franchise the whole of the NHS out! I agree with a referendum on Europe, but UKIP are to the right of Tories. It is a left alternative that is needed.”