Yorkshire Ambulance Service "Weak" for the 3rd Year....... Mick Pilling says this is Horrendous

I have had talks with the YAS management over the past 3 years about the state of play in Bridlington were Ambulances race along the A165 to Scarborough A&E 22 miles away then they race back to pick-up another patient; as many as 3 or 4 Ambulances have been clocked within 30 minutes of each other.

Patients arriving at Scarborough A&E over the past 12 months have stated of long waits to be admitted; we all know that an Ambulance cannot be released until the said patient is handed over safely to the A&E.

When Bridlington Hospital Services were removed and taken to Scarborough, we lost the Cardiac Monitoring Unit, the Surgical wards and Maternity Unit; we were assured YAS could cope? Extra Ambulances were drafted in at a cost of approx £500,000/600,000. Can they cope; this puts fear into the hearts of Bridlington people, the surrounding areas were only just coping before.

We were told that YAS would get better after the last 2 years of problems and response times not been met. Don't you feel we have been really let down, how many patients may die as a result of the present state of YAS in this area.

The dedicated Paramedic's and Technicians work flat out and we take our hats off to them; we blame the white collar workers who hold the purse strings, bring more Ambulances in if you cannot cope. Before live are lost!!

You cannot get away with the facts....3 years of been let down by the very service which was set up to save lives

Kindest regards from Mick Pilling Telling it like is!

Under the freedom of information act 2000 Anyone can write to the Yorkshire Ambulance Service and demand to know how many patients have died in transit; eother by Heart attack or other means......You can write at any time the YAS must respond within 21 days! What you waiting for? Go ahead and write!


Ambulance officials defend 'weak' score

This report appeared in the Hull Daily Mail today.....Thursday, October 15, 2009

The region's ambulance trust has been criticised for failing to provide an adequate quality of service for its patients, according to a new report.
Poor 999 response times is one of the reasons the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) has been given a low score by the independent regulator of health and social care in England.

YAS has been scored as 'weak' for its quality of services for the third consecutive year. But it was rated 'good' for financial management – an improvement on the previous two years. It is the only trust in the whole of the Yorkshire region to score 'weak' in any category. But officials insist the service has made big strides to improve since the original inspection.

It comes as the Care Quality Commission (CQC) today published the annual performance ratings for all 392 NHS trusts in England.
Although the service is out-performing its response times for emergency 999 calls in Hull and the East Riding it has been behind Government-set targets in its area as a whole.

Ambulances are expected to reach 'category a' patients – those with immediately life-threatening conditions – within eight minutes in 75 per cent of cases.
In Hull and East Riding ambulance crews actually exceeded that target – 79.1 per cent during the period of the inspection.

But in other parts of the region covered by YAS the picture was not as healthy – just 69.4 per cent for the inspection period.