Medics fight back.........
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I do hope Mr Stevens educated himself last night by watching Real Story on BBC1 at 7pm. It showed a small snippet of a Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) taking a young serviceman to Selly Oak Intensive Care Unit following battle trauma.
Road transport is always a risk and an un-neccesary journey from BZN would only have compounded the inherent dangers of moving the critically ill.
The present situation is not ideal of having service personel on civil wards, but their is no reason why a prefabricated ward block cannot be built on site, secured and used for HM forces. The prefabricated system does work, as I have seen it used in my own hospital. This would provide a temporary solution until a more long term decision can be made. The comments of the ICU Consultant are quite correct in that HM Forces do not have the number of Medical and Nursing staff from all specialities in sufficient numbers or facillities to manage complex trauma cases
The programme also highlighted the disgraceful treatment of ex servicemen/women and their physical and psychlogical trauma and an inability to access care within the NHS that they require. I would ask all Ppruners to support the charities in their work and to start to write their MPs highlighting their concerns about the situation.
Angry and distressed, you bet I am !!
Road transport is always a risk and an un-neccesary journey from BZN would only have compounded the inherent dangers of moving the critically ill.
The present situation is not ideal of having service personel on civil wards, but their is no reason why a prefabricated ward block cannot be built on site, secured and used for HM forces. The prefabricated system does work, as I have seen it used in my own hospital. This would provide a temporary solution until a more long term decision can be made. The comments of the ICU Consultant are quite correct in that HM Forces do not have the number of Medical and Nursing staff from all specialities in sufficient numbers or facillities to manage complex trauma cases
The programme also highlighted the disgraceful treatment of ex servicemen/women and their physical and psychlogical trauma and an inability to access care within the NHS that they require. I would ask all Ppruners to support the charities in their work and to start to write their MPs highlighting their concerns about the situation.
Angry and distressed, you bet I am !!
