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I am not quite sure but it seems BoredMatrix is the FIRST one to CARE that one particular company is not targeted on here. To the outsider it would seem some paramedics expert comments on the forum are slightly tainted by commercial interests?

But kudos to those who discredit all rival volunteer and commercial operators in the interest of covert promotion of their own commercial interests...

"Patient Transport Officers are working to get people to medical support in any circumstances, regardless of whether they are facing an emergency".

I personally would like medical intervention both non-emergency and emergency from a professionally trained and competent clinician not some person with a Certificate III in Patient Transport.. Specialising in delivering Nanna to her Radiology appointment and home again hahaha!! Keep your eyes peeled for next weeks edition of Careerone... Who knows IMS Ambulance Service could be starring next! Watch this space!

You are entirely free to have your personal choice of provider saambo, and SAAS it is.  Just remember if u are in PTS, or struggle to make it in one day, that nanna is actually paying your bills, and demands respect.

  My question is what makes you think that SAAS is the only provider of professionally trained and competent staff.  From your responses on previous forums, I can only surmise that you get your opinions about private providers from your imagination, and that you have never spoken to a patient, carer, hospital staff member or Flinder's Paramedic student about who SAPS are and the service they provide.

 Just to clarify, not all staff that work for SAPS are Cert III, that is the minimum.  They have IC Para, Para, Cert IV and Cert III.

Nocare1 I would much prefer being provided a service by SAAS staff over a private provider anyday! I am sure much others would prefer this too?

Leave Emergency work for Paramedics and Transfers for SAAS Ambulance Officer...

Why don't you ask the patients, the nursing homes or the hospital staff who they prefer to be doing non-emergency transports?  I think you will find that you are out of favour saambo...

I would have to say no fertiliser Bored-Matrix...maybe around 2 tonnes of cement though.  Sounds like you might like a good dose, PO...

as opposed to being able to just make allegedly slanderous comments and take the mickey out of whomever & whenever someone likes?

Glass houses and all that.....

= 10/10

Mr Amboman69,

Be weary.  It is hard to see the full picture from the confines of a chair in the ED.  You seem to know a lot about the patient and the P.A. for someone who should be either looking after their own patient, or clearing for the next job from dispatch.

Everybody makes mistakes, on occasion.  No one ever hears about the SAAS ones though, only private. There are things you perceive to be mistakes, when maybe it is done differently elsewhere...stick to patient care.

@disOrderly

Promote that person!

Every ambulance system, and hospital system has issues.  NSW ambulance does a lot of things very well, and some things not so...don't forget population density, traffic, and admission rate are 'generally' higher in & around Sydney's major hospitals.  If you have ever seen St Vincent's ED on a weekend, it is amazing, 11 crews waiting in the corridor just to get beds, a lot of the time more, 11 cars!

I am in no way criticising SAAS, it is such a large system, and it does very well.  SAAS and the crews have been cooperative and friendly in all encounters.

Following on...if the patients are not ready, there isn't much that can be done.  I just find in that going to the wards that the patients seem to be ready much more quickly for Tx, they make a special effort to clear.  If they think all SAAS crews are out on Emerg jobs, or in Tx, they will not increase their throughput as the patient has nowhere to go.

A holding area is a great idea, push as hard as you all can to get it in the new hospital when it is built.

@IMS2009

Do you know the common law definition of defamation (libel/slander)?
You may wish to consider it in relation to your comments...

FYI,
The benefits of any disposable medical product are documented thoroughly in a number of medical journals, particularly in the United States, and also here in Australia.  With regard to draw sheets/stretcher sheets, disposable have benefits and drawbacks just as non-disp'.  Disposable decrease the risk of allergic/anaphylactic reaction of patients, whereas 'non-disp' obviously have a risk with bleaching agents (sometimes fragrances) becoming allergens.  Patients' also appreciate disposable with the feeling of sterility. 

The regular draw sheet is generally used to slide over the patient, but the disposable can also be used, and may well be predominantly in the future.  There is no difference in strength, and there is always another sheet on the ED barouche.  Hence this is a non-issue.  The patient is pat-slid over and then the disposable removed after (and quite easily), just as the regular one is.  But if there are people who never go to the wards, they would never know that.

Disposable simply costs the private operator more, saves the hospital money (public $ saved), and is better for the patient.  If everyone had the patient in mind, the system would function as we all would like it to.

sorry, just realised this is for SAAS only...

EMS Taxi; Emergency Medical Support Taxi, interesting.  I wonder how they will go with if it is found out they have Emergency on their clothing.

360, you must be a station officer...smarter than the average bear