the advice to patients is to think carefully before calling an ambulance but not to hesitate if it s a life threatening emergencies such as a heart attack, stroke or seizure. at this hospital in plymouth, the army is helping with ambulance call outs, and the service will undoubtedly be even more stretched today. are you going to wave it for me? back on the manchester picket line, paramedics like mark say the strike is about more than just pay but also the state of the wider health service. i ve been in this job for 14 years, and i ve seen it slowly decline. it s a case of we re not able to do ourjob properly because we re getting stuck in ambulances and we are not able to then provide for other people that need us. from the government point of view, i think sometimes they do play on our caring side, we are all in the job because we care, and most of us will still stay because it s a job that we love and a job that we ve
at this hospital in plymouth, the army is helping with ambulance call outs, and the service will undoubtedly be even more stretched today. are you going to wave it for me? back on the manchester picket line, paramedics like mark say the strike is about more than just pay but also the state of the wider health service. i ve been in this job for ia years, and i ve seen it slowly decline. it s a case of we re not able to do ourjob properly because we re getting stuck in ambulances and we are not able to then provide for other people that need us. from the government point of view, i think sometimes they do play on our caring side, we are all in the job because we care, and most of us will still stay because it s a job that we love and a job that we ve been in for quite a few years and we need to be matched up with the pay that we deserve, really. the health service will see more strikes, with two days of industrial action by nursing staff next week and physiotherapists striking
handlers representing two thirds of all ambulance workers. in manchester, the industrial action started at 7am, but the timings vary across different parts of england and wales. 999 calls will still be answered, and ambulance crews are attending life threatening emergencies. but the government says given the extreme pressure on the health service, facing one of the toughest winters in its history, this is the wrong time to take strike action. the nhs, as we can all see, is under massive pressure. we accepted in full the recommendations of what is an independent process, the pay review body process, and i think it s hugely regrettable. the advice to patients is to think carefully before calling an ambulance but not to hesitate if it s a life threatening emergencies such as a heart attack, stroke or seizure. at this hospital in plymouth, the army is helping with ambulance call outs, and the service will undoubtedly be even
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doing to address that? we put half £1 billion into what is called early discharge to help move people into their communities this winter. we are rolling out something called virtual wards where people who have acute respiratory infections can be treated at home with medicine that will free up capacity on the nhs and we are rolling out a new full service so we can save about 55,000 ambulance call outs a year by treating people with falls at home and we need to do a betterjob in preventative medicine. so many people with undiagnosed high blood pressure who end up ultimately having a cardiac issue that requires an ambulance call outs. those are some of the things we are doing this winter that i m confident we ll make a difference. we also have a plan in place to get nhs waiting times, when it comes to elective surgery, down and that is something i m confident we can do and i believe that in just a few months practically eliminating waiting times for those waiting a year and a half. we ve