New proposals for East Midlands Ambulance Service stations across Lincolnshire
East Midlands Ambulance Service has announced new proposals on the future location of ambulance stations across Lincolnshire.
EMAS is considering replacing its 65 stations with 11 large hubs, 16 stations and 108 smaller community ambulance stations.
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A final decision is expected later this month.
Previous proposals had suggested 13 ambulance hubs and 118 smaller community ambulance posts.
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A public consultation was run in 2012 on the original proposals but faced fierce opposition.
Under the new proposals, some of the stations that were previously earmarked for closure would now remain open.
Lincolnshire hubs would be located in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham while stations would be in Gainsborough, Louth, Skegness and Sleaford.
The hubs would be larger than existing stations and would contain maintenance facilities.
The smaller community ambulance stations would only contain rest facilities - with some located in existing GP practices or fire stations.
6 Comments
by golfhandicap
Monday, April 29 2013, 12:25PM
“The EMAS Medical Director has been sacked, it is linked to the investigation into the 13 deaths.....”
by Gravity
Saturday, March 23 2013, 8:28PM
“I am an IHCD Paramedic with nearly 20 years services with EMAS. EMAS have distorted the truth to the public. They are shutting downing some stations and saying there will be 100 + community stand by points, implying that there will be 100+ ambulances there waiting for calls!!
There wont be. We CANNOT cope now. The area is far too big and we don't have enough resources.
The other thing that's been glossed over is EMAS employing 130 Emergency Care Assistants, telling the public that they are there to free up Paramedics, no they are not!! They are no more and no less than First Aid at Work Certificate level trained with blue light training and a week at training school to learn how to assist the paramedic and use different bits of kit. THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY DIAGNOSIS TRAINING OR SKILLS AT ALL. When this stupid plan all goes belly up and the Board get sacked, they'll move on to other jobs, and who is left to pick up the bits, YOU the public and us as staff!”
by Gravity
Saturday, March 23 2013, 8:27PM
“I am an IHCD Paramedic with nearly 20 years services with EMAS. EMAS have distorted the truth to the public. They are shutting downing some stations and saying there will be 100 + community stand by points, implying that there will be 100+ ambulances there waiting for calls!!
There wont be. We CANNOT cope now. The area is far too big and we don't have enough resources.
The other thing that's been glossed over is EMAS employing 130 Emergency Care Assistants, telling the public that they are there to free up Paramedics, no they are not!! They are no more and no less than First Aid at Work Certificate level trained with blue light training and a week at training school to learn how to assist the paramedic and use different bits of kit. THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY DIAGNOSIS TRAINING OR SKILLS AT ALL. When this stupid plan all goes belly up and the Board get sacked, they'll move on to other jobs, and who is left to pick up the bits, YOU the public and us as staff!”
by Gravity
Saturday, March 23 2013, 8:26PM
“I am an IHCD Paramedic with nearly 20 years services with EMAS. EMAS have distorted the truth to the public. They are shutting downing some stations and saying there will be 100 + community stand by points, implying that there will be 100+ ambulances there waiting for calls!!
There wont be. We CANNOT cope now. The area is far too big and we don't have enough resources.
The other thing that's been glossed over is EMAS employing 130 Emergency Care Assistants, telling the public that they are there to free up Paramedics, no they are not!! They are no more and no less than First Aid at Work Certificate level trained with blue light training and a week at training school to learn how to assist the paramedic and use different bits of kit. THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY DIAGNOSIS TRAINING OR SKILLS AT ALL. When this stupid plan all goes belly up and the Board get sacked, they'll move on to other jobs, and who is left to pick up the bits, YOU the public and us as staff!”
by DS999
Tuesday, March 19 2013, 11:06AM
“So standby points were changed to 'Community Ambulance Points' and now the Director of PR at EMAS has changed them to 'Community Ambulance Stations'.
They hope you will not notice and therefore not object to a massive cull of over half our regions ambulance stations.
I think once it sinks in, community campaigns will pop up throughout EMAS and this will end up causing distress to many communities.
Why doesn't EMAS drop these plans and focus on what is really needed? Getting the right number of staff at the right level of training to do the job that we expect? The answer is unfortunately to do with performance targets, the privatisation by stealth of our NHS and a £20b 'savings' aka cut to our NHS budget. You see by having crews start and finish their shifts at the hubs, they will be able to deploy crews to the busiest areas to respond to emergencies. Therefore, if you live in a small town or rural area you will wait longer, which could prove fatal. The idea that ambulances will be on standby is nonsense. Everyone at EMAS knows ambulances hardly every stand by as they go from call to call.”
by Dixie9
Monday, March 18 2013, 12:01PM
“I really don't mind where they locate them, as long as they turn up when called. My wife recently had a fall in a local shop and sustained a nasty head wound. The shopkeeper called for an ambulance and we were advised to keep pressure on the wound. 90 minutes later we were still doing that and no-one had arrived. When I rang again they said they've send someone when there was someone available. If they'd said they couldn't attend at the outset, then we'd have done what we finished up doing in the end, and transporting her to Louth in a car, where she received excellent treatment.”