Originally Posted by
willadvise
I have no experience in this area apart from being an ATC for some years dealing with the RFDS. A scenario I have envisaged is, a patient is picked up by the PC12 from somewhere, or presents to Broome hospital. It looks like they will need to go to Perth. The Perth based PC24 is sent up to Broome. Subsequently, patient is assessed as treatable there or dies. This becomes a wasted trip for the Perth based PC24 whereas a Broome based PC24 would have never left the ground.
Not sure how often this is likely to happen but thought I would throw it out there for comment.
Hi mate, the No sayers have 2 cards at play.
A) The jet will be
sent when a call is raised so travel time is not applicable. But Jandakot has better dispatch.
B)
A patient will not be moved until stable - giving time for a jet to move from Jandakot.
Personally if there were no jet in Broome, I don't think sending the jet from Jandakot trying to save my daughter in Broome is a wasted trip but a best effort but short on time.