09-21-2021, 10:10 PM
(09-21-2021, 02:50 PM)DJC date Wrote:A mate recently retired after a career as an ambo - most recently in a very senior role. He's neither a nerd or a bean counter but a very experienced operational ambo. His take is that they don't have enough ambulances (or spare parts for the ambulances they have) for additional staff. That means that newly qualified paramedics (my niece just qualified) can't get the 12 months in the passenger seat they need as the next step in their career path.My reference to "more ambulance crews" assumes the new hardware to go with them, and the same for nurses and health care staff.
My niece will probably have to go interstate to progress her career.
Authorities just have to wear the cost of having some of them idle when things are quiet, there is in my opinion a point at which operations become too lean.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

